- A divided government is a weak government.
- One great feature of the federal system is that we can try different policies in different states and see what works and what doesn’t.
- The laws of each state can more closely reflect local public opinion.
- The will of the people is constantly tested and re-measured in a federal system: elections at one level or another every year contested on local and national issues.
- People vote more often for different policy packages, rather than occasionally for a few up and down choices.
- The will of the people is constantly tested and re-measured in a federal system: elections at one level or another every year contested on local and national issues.
After 15 years of Maggie Thatcher, good and hard, British Labor reconsidered devolution because a federal state slows the impassioned majority down.
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