This term would be known as Strict Construction
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It has influenced their agriculture, republican form of government, entertainment.
State and Federal governments deal with bigger issues that is affecting a great amount of the population found within the economy and/or state, while local deals with problems within its community
Without a checks and balances system in place, any branch of government could <span>run amok without supervision</span>
I don't know exactly what your looking for but, it could do with religion or different ideas of the country.
For example: Let's say that America goes to war with Russia and the Americans didn't want to go to war. The people have a differed idea from the government, meaning that the military does not have the peoples support.
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