What is the "republic of west florida"

Portions of what are now Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana were established as an independent nation.

This is the ROWF

puritans hope this

states

explanation:

as the old saying goes, all politics are local. state and federal governments affect our daily lives in numerous ways. yet, in our federal system, there is supposed to be a balance between federal and state power. as james madison envisioned it in federalist no. 51, “the power surrendered by the people” would be “divided between two distinct governments,” creating a balance of power that would enable the “different governments [to] control each other.”