Despite the greater federal authority in the federal relationship, federalism is still important for all the following reasons except that:

Question

A)it provides the best means of developing a vast country because it allows for experimentation.

B)it may stimulate the interest of the people in the affairs of their neighborhood.

C)it relieves the national legislature of functions and responsibilities that may prove too burdensome.

D)it allows the national government to subordinate the states to its will.

Answer 1

Either B or D. What does your book say?

Answer 2

Since the 1930s, when the federal government became more involved in domestic policy functions, federalism has come to be understood as a relationship in which the states are moresubordinate to the supreme power and authority of the national government.

**So would the answer be "D"***

Answer 3

Yes, D would be the answer.

Note, I do not like the wording of that answer. I don't think the national government subordinates the states to its will.