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Federalism doesn't empower D.C. to dictate to the states or the local level.

— Nancy Mace

The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude…

— Alexander Hamilton

I don't trust that the big-business part of our coalition is ever going to defend federalism and argue against regulatory capture. I don't trust…

— Ben Sasse

Brandon McCaw did a question about Federalism is a politicial system in which two or more distinct levels of government share and except power…

— Brandon Mccaw

We are inclined to confuse freedom and democracy, which we regard as moral principles, with the way in which they are practiced in America…

— J. William Fulbright

It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those…

— Alexander Hamilton

I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel…

— Alexander Hamilton

I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of…

— James Madison

The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every…

— John Dickinson

The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters…

— Alexander Hamilton

To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Since my election as Oklahoma attorney general in 2010, I have been a proud member of a group of federalism-minded state attorneys general who…

— Scott Pruitt

“The first grand federalist design...was that of the Bible, most particularly the Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament... Biblical thought is federal (from the Latin…

— Daniel J. Elazar

I'd like to see the argument made for greater worldwide federalism, not just the European Union.

— Ben Miller

The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with…

— Joseph Story