list several ways states have influences on the national government. essay #45

Madison lists several reasons for why the state governments will continue to have significant power and relevance under the Constitution. He argues that, if anything, it is the federal government that is at greatest risk of being rendered feeble, as under the Articles. The Constitution corrects that problem by offering the federal government greater powers.

Madison closes by asserting that the powers granted to the federal government are not really “new powers” so much as an “invigoration” of the “original powers” granted to it by the Articles. The Constitution does not expand these powers. It just “substitutes a more effectual mode of administering them.”