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In this module, we continue to study the US Constitution, one of
the oldest documents of its type still in continuous use in the
world today, and how it affects the governing of the country as a
whole. With the failure of the Articles of Confederation, the
American Founders had to come to accept that a strong central
government was necessary to make the young United States survive.
However, the Articles of Confederation had been initially adopted
because Americans had been resistant to the idea of strong central
authority and valued their own autonomy of their former colonial
parliaments-turned state governments. The people of the United
States still did not see themselves as “Americans,” but more often
“Virginians” or “Georgians” or “New Yorkers” first. With this, it
seems obvious why a federal system that allows for both central
authority and local authority to coexist was adopted.
Clearly, this federal system has worked in the American
experience as it continues today, but why? What were its advantages
over a strictly national government or strictly local rule? What
weaknesses does it have because it has to compromise between
national and local rule?