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FEDERALISM IN AMERICA Federalism was part of the compromise devised by the Founding Fathers, the system was devised as a practical accommodation between those wanting a strong national government and those seeking to defend the powers of the state authorities and the conflicting interests of the large and small states. Under the federal system the national and state governments each had their own responsibilities. Federalism was a half-way house between the concept of a centralized unitary state that was unacceptable to the thirteen states, and that of a confederation which was a weak association of autonomous states of the kind that had proved unsatisfactory between 1776 and 1787. Federalism arose out of the desire to bolster national unity whilst at the same time accommodate regional diversity. Under the federal system powers were divided between the national (federal or general) government which in certain matters was to be independent of...

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