Define federalism. how did the introduction of federalism affect the rights of the state governments?

Federalism is a mixed form of government in which power is shared, ideally equally, between a central (federal) government and region (state) governments. 

Federalism generally reduced the rights of the states, since they became actors within a federal system and limited in their powers, rather than operating as their own distinct entities. 

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