Federalism in the United States

The founders of the United States looked at other systems to come up with ideas for a federal system. The one place you couldn't have local autonomy is in places where the federal constitution superseded the state ones, he says. "If you take away too much of the ability for the different people in the different parts of the country to live the lives that they want to live, then you turn every battle we have into a life or death one"