They chose federalism because it called for equal powers divided between central government vs. states. It created much needed unity that would’ve caused the union to disintegrate, otherwise. the compromise between having a unitary system of government or a confederal system.

The election of Ronald Reagan heralded the advent of a “devolution revolution” in U.S. federalism, in which the president pledged to return authority to the states according to the Constitution.

To the founding fathers, federalism seemed the perfect way to protect personal liberty, since concentrating all power into one hand (even one popularly elected hand) might prove to be tyrannical; while working under a confederation, or an alliance of states where the state governments are more powerful than the …

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Some nations which started out as confederations retained the word in their titles after officially becoming federations, such as Switzerland. The United States of America was a confederation before it became a federation with the ratification of the current U.S. constitution in 1788.

Canada is a federation and not a confederate association of sovereign states, which is what “confederation” means in contemporary political theory. It is nevertheless often considered to be among the world’s more decentralized federations.

John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, originally favoured a unitary system; later, after witnessing the carnage of the American Civil War, he supported a federal system to avoid similar violent conflicts.

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