<span>Tin is your answer to your question </span>
Federalists believed that the central government should be strong and have a lot of power. They held a loose interpretation of the Constitution, meaning they believed that, if the Constitution didn't say you couldn't do something, you could do it.
B. it was in 1848, so that's before the civil war.
Technically, it is true that the national government can try to compel states to obey national laws using fiscal federalism, even in areas where the national government has no <span>authority over the states, since states receive a great deal of funding from the federal government. </span>
