The southern states believed in states' rights, the right to make decisions and run their own affairs. States' rights and the stubborness of the north in resenting the skills of the south were the main cause of the war. The north had so right to interfere in the affairs of the southern states.
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divided between national govt and lower levels of govt.
Federal System
federalism
I think is federalism
The delegates settled on a federal form of government instead of a system in which power was not divided between state and national government because they believed that it provided for a much stronger national government with a chief executive (the president), courts, and taxing powers.