United States GovernmentThe United States has a deeply rooted tradition rooted through the Constitution of having a federalist style of government as a structural framework for operating and guiding the government of the country. The form of government is best described as a balance between the powers of the central government and the powers of each independent, self-governing state. “Federalism is a system in which the power to govern is shared between national and provincial (state) governments, creating what is often called a federation” (Wikipedia 1). This style of government was not the only structure established in American history to implement civil law and order among the people of the country. Prior to the adoption of the United States Constitution in 1787, the American people and their states were governed by the Articles of Confederation. This document, adopted in 1781 by the American colonies officially transforming them into independent states and as a country, provided the citizens of the new nation with their first experiment in independent freedom and organized government. In July 1776 the United Colonies had to develop a new Confederation to declare war on England, this included ratification for all 13 states and became the first “Constitution” (Klos 1). As the title of this historic document suggests, the style of government provided to the American people through the Articles of Confederation is that of a confederation. A confederate government consists of independent states that have overriding and undisputed sovereign authority over their affairs. The type of political system by which the Founding Fathers of the United States severed their colonial ties was that of a single paper medium, especially better in all cases than another. However, careful examination of the concepts and application of the confederal, unitary, and federalist styles of government is vital to leading the world in a direction that brings orderly and civilized government to all countries. Works Cited www.archives.gov/.../ document.html?...Articles%20of%20Confederation (accessed 30 June 2010).www.pgcps.org/~croom2/Reading_Government%20Systems.doc (accessed 30 June 2010).www.usconstitution.net/csa.html (accessed June 30, 2010).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/federalism July 6, 2006Klobs, Stanley L. Articles of Confederation, November 15, 1777. July 6, 2010.http://thedeclarationofindependence.org/articlesofconfederation.com/Roskin, Michael G., Robert L. Cord, James A. Medeiros, and Walter S. Jones. Political Science: An Introduction, 11th edition.