kinds which are interest and right. He also believed that a right is of two kinds-- power and property. Hume was a man that was lead by the influence of John Locke and George Berkeley. Hume also believed that we should just keep and improve our ancient governments; hence, we prevent any new radical forms of government.Federalism was incorporated in the constitution for many different reasons. One of the main reasons federalism was added was to prevent the new form of government in the United States after the Articles of Confederation of abusing its powers. Under federalism, state governments and the national governments would have specific limit, and rights. Some of the limits and rights on the national government were the right of habeus corpus, and control of interstate commerce. States could not tax imports and exports, could not impair obligation of contracts. Federalism was created to ensure both separate governments certain privileges. The Framers of the Constitution believed that the competition between both of the governments would create an effective limitation on each governments power.The Federalist Papers, numbers forty-five and forty-six, were written by James Madison and supported some of the ideas of federalism in them. In Federalist Papers 45, Madison wrote about "The Alleged Danger from the Powers of the Union to the State Governments." In Federalist Papers 46, Madison wrote about "The Influence of the state and federal governments."Madison’s Federalist Papers 45 cited federalism in a few areas. One big area was the power to tax. Madison said that if federal government had tax collectors, than the state governments will have theirs also. Madison believed that the national and state governments should both have their own powers. The national government has powers on war, peace, foreign commerce, and negotiation. He then stated that the state government has the powers concerning the lives and liber...
