Governments Functions

1. Summarize how the sources you investigated respond to the question.

This article of The History Channel compared what the governments responsibility and duties should be, compared to what they are. The article made references of the national and state government, and what each of their functions are, or should be. The article also stated how the government now needs to change, to keep the functions the same in the twenty-first century, the same to when the fathers wrote the constitution, assigning functions of each branch in the government. According to the article, the national's government is to handle external affairs, concurrent powers with states, do what is best for the commonwealth of the people, and to "supervise" state law. And the purpose of state law is to give the people of the state laws to follow, to help keep the state safe.

2. What did you learn from the source(s) that you did not know before? How does that knowledge affect your understanding of American history?

I knew that the government was separated, from national to state, and then into