I think that it's rather obvious from that reading of Madison's that the idea of the federal government was to essentially protect us, protect 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. (04:42–04:47)
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Asserts that the original intent was for states to hold most power in the federal system.
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