why the federal government has more power and responsibility than the state governments?

Question

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Answer 1

they should have more power than a single state government...but the entire union should have power over the fed. their purpose is to create standards...like the standard for an electrical outlet...if every state had a different version that would be stupid. also they must have the power to create antitrust laws to prevent monopolies and oligopolies...they must have the power to regulate interest rates to level out the peaks and valleys of the macromarket. but remember the fed is supposed to serve the union, not the other way around.

Answer 2

The Federal government has more power because those enumerated powers contained in Articles One through Three of our Constitution were those given to that government by the goverments of the thirteen states which developed and ratified that document. In exchange for giving the Federal government those powers, Article Four of the Constitution contains the "price" that Federal government had to "pay" in exchange for those powers:
1. To guarantee each State had a republican form of government.
2. To guard the States against invasion.
Those enumerated powers give the Federal government responsibility over matters of common defense, coining and printing of money, postal roads and interstate commerce and a host of other duties.
Read the Constitution as if it were a contract. Because that is what it is. A contract between the individual and collective States and the Federal government which they created in that document. The reason for entering into that contract can be seen in the Preamble to that document.

Answer 3

The constitution gave the Federal government specific and enumerated powers including control over interstate trade, international trade and other specific powers. Read the constitution for these powers. The tenth amendment restricted the Federal government to these specific powers and reserved ALL other powers to the states. However, Lincoln ignored the tenth amendment and attacked the southern states that chose to secede from the USA. Through his violent force of power, he destroyed the intent of the tenth amendment and made the individual state governments mere servants of the Federal govenment. Ever since then, along with the legalization of the income tax, the Federal government has expanded its scope and power over the states and the citizens of America. Check out Voluntaryist.com

Answer 4

Power of the Constitution as well as taxation. But, probably most of all, it mints, prints and distributes all the money and has the nukes to back their authority.

Answer 5

the civil war settled that