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federal or confederal states
The Greek city states treated the government independently. This was because they knew that the city had its independent way of governing and government. It became very effecting in counteracting the politics at the time.
Declaration of war is an example of a prohibited power of states. Only the federal government can declare war against another country. Administering elections is another example; this is a power of states, not the federal government.
Federalism is a form of government where the National government, and the States government is shared, and equalized so none gain power over one another.
Another example of federal government taking states power would be the new ways of controlling the states spending, the government now gave out categorical grants from which it could control how the states spent this money. For some states the government was giving out over $200 billion dollars from which 90% of this would be categorical grants and the federal government would regulate how it was spent. The states therefore were restricted on what they could spend the money on and this further showed an increase in federal government's power.