Part one of term paper
One of the six basic principles of the Constitution is federalism. Federalism is a system of government in which power is shared by the national and state governments, which came into existence when the United States declared its independence in 1776. A federal system is different from a confederation, where states have most of the pow ...

Part two of term paper
... powers and no level acting alone can change the basic divisions of powers the Constitution makes between them. Each level operates through its own agencies and acts directly on the people through its own officials and laws. The Constitution sets out the basic design of the American federal system. The document provides for a division of powers between the National Government and the States. That division of powers was implied in the original Constitution and then in the Tenth Amendment: "Th ...