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Politics : 2000:The Make-or-Break Election -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scarecrow who wrote (335)	7/17/2000 9:13:50 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1013

You can dance in the wind all you want, Scarecrow, but the Tin Man will still rust and the Wizard cannot give you a brain. The definition of the website you directed me to: federalism means: "the distribution of power in an organization (as a government) between a central authority and the constituent units -- compare CENTRALISM; and support or advocacy of this principle". As you'll note, it does not mention anything of the percentage of the division. Theoretically, the "central authority" could hold 99% of the power and the government could still be defined as "federalist." But you miss my point. Whether the federalists' central authority holds 1% or 99% of the power is immaterial. The anti-federalists of the late 1700s and early 1800s maintained there should be NO federal government at all. For that they roundly condemned the betrayer of the Declaration of Independence, Alexander Hamilton.