Federalism: The United States is a federal republic, where each individual state has power over local affairs. The United States is not a centralized country like France where officials from Paris can take decisions in regards to every single aspect in every single region.
Fear of Tyranny or Dictatorship: many americans are afraid that a too powerful central goverment might evolve into a dictatorship, because it would acquire more and more power with time.
Fear of centralized incompetence: many americans believe that central governments are more incompetent than local governments. People think that policymakers in Washington do not have enough information about, say, Idaho, to do a good job in dealing with problems in that state. They feel that local Idaho politicians can do a better job because they live and work there.
<span>General Lee would not take up arms against his own state of Virginia. He was the commander of the Confederate states of America. He commanded the army of Northern Virginia from 1862 until 1865 when he surrendered. He was one of the great generals of the Civil War.</span>
