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Title: Principles of Federalism

Original CoS Document (slug): [[https://conventionofstates.com/principles-of-federalism|principles-of-federalism]]

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//More testimony from our Delaware team to our state legislature://

Convention of States is a national movement of millions of Americans in all 50 States. We are using Article V of the US Constitution to amend the Constitution.\\
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The Constitution, created by We the People of the several States, provides the structure to unite and govern this country in the model of federalism. This model refers to a federation of states or democratic republics in combination with a national or federal government. \\
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The People, acting through the sovereign states, have supreme authority as only they, and not the Federal Government, can ratify amendments to the US Constitution.\\
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The Articles of Confederation were ineffectual in providing a structure to allow the USA to remain viable. The Congress unanimously agreed to a Convention of the States in Philadelphia in 1787 “to render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union."\\
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The Constitution gave increased power to the federal government compared to the Articles of Confederation but gave it limited jurisdiction with only specific enumerated powers. The federal government was divided into three branches, the Legislative, the Executive, and the Judicial. Each branch had limited powers, including the power to provide checks and balances on the other two branches.\\
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A fourth branch has arisen which is the bureaucracy, or federal agencies, which are unelected bureaucrats and yet function as lawmakers, executors, judges, and juries. The US Constitution specifically forbids aristocracies and all titles of nobility. Unfortunately, our federal government has effectively created an aristocracy of itself and its many federal bureaucrats.

We the People need to rectify this situation by limiting the power of these bureaucracies and unelected lawmakers. We can do this through an Article V Convention of States.