The Civil War influenced the role of government in the United States because it highlighted how the national government was the sovereign power. Following efforts by states to succeed and establish their own system of government the national government of the U.S. asserted is dominance and defeated the southern belligerents, thereby reasserting its dominance over politics and government in the United States following the war.
The Constitution gave Congress the power to create a system of federal courts because t<span>he Constitution anticipated the need for courts equal to the Supreme Court.</span>
