POL111H5 Chapter 14: Chapter 14.docx
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To achieve extracting resources within a territory while retaining the willingness of the population, modern states consist of network of organizations consisting of: the central government, its offices and representatives in the field, regional governments, local authorities. Why do people set our on the journey to a federation: fear of the consequences of remaining separate must over come desire to preserve independence, federalism becomes a solution when in an emerging state, the strong are not strong enough to get rid of the weak the weak re not strong enough to go their separate ways. Dual federalism meant that national and state governments retained separate spheres of action, each level independently performed the tasked allocated to them by the constitution: operate independently, linked only through constitutional compact, this has disappeared though due to the demands of an integrated economy/world war/terrorism, are said to be unattainable and backward looking.