1. Describe federalism in your own words using evidence from Document 2 to support your description. (4 Points)
In Document 1, how is the author portraying federalism? Please use evidence from the cartoon as to whether this
has a positive or negative undertone (4 Points) Using the knowledge you obtained during this unit, do you agree or
disagree with this representation. Why or why not? (4 Points)

Federalism is mainly understood to be an organizational principle in which the individual members (member states) have a limited independence and statehood, but are united to a sovereign overarching federal state.  

A federal state consists of sub-states that exercise certain (limited) competences under constitutional law that are not derived from the federal government as a whole. In addition to the state as a whole, the member states of a federal state therefore have their own, original autonomy over the population in their territory in terms of constitutional law.

answer: president kennedy is vowing to protect freedom in this paragraph.