… us from the outside and that the states were to have the majority of the power in the federal system. Now, we all know that the federal system now and The federal government exerts a great amount of authority over the states and numerous pieces of legislation. We all think about the federal government as this forcing all of these rules and regulations onto our lives. That hundreds of thousands of pages of regulations that are put into place every year through the Federal Register. (04:50–04:59)
CLAIM
Asserts that the federal government currently holds significant authority over states.
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