To evaluate the effects of federalism, read this excerpt from the government archives Federalism is a comerstone of the US Constitution and provides the structure necessary for both a federal or national government and the state government to co-exist in a single nation. When the Constitution was signed on September 17. 1787. nt represented a compromise between those leaders of the new country who thought it best to establish a strong central or national government. In fact, there were some early American politicians who advocated establishing a monarchy in this country and selecting a king to rule On the other side of the argument were the leaders who believed that a strong central government was a terrible concept after all, the country had just fought a revolution to free itself from the grip of the central government of King George Rather than a strong federal government, these newly elected leaders preferred to provide as much power and authority to state or local governments as possible and minimize the authority of a central govemment. They correctly pointed out that the states had been formed well before the new federal government Write a paragraph establishing a way to express the conflict facing the United States from 1777 to 1787 when the Articles of Confederation were radically altered to form a new type of govemment Write from 50 to 150 words in a text box