It is no less bad for the federal government to intrude upon the sovereignty of the states than it is for the states to … The founding fathers devoted significant effort to assigning responsibilities to each level of government. … foreign to our English counterparts. They were even relatively new concepts here in some respects. In others, there were patterns that emerged in which you can see a close resemblance between the British system and ours. (14:28–15:00)
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Asserts that the founding fathers carefully delineated government responsibilities.
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