National Prosperity: Federal Government as an Effective Policy Maker When the thirteen colonies simultaneously broke free of England's rule, they had the same religion, the same language, the same customs, and almost the same laws. They were struggling against a common enemy. These factors combined to form a sufficiently strong enough reason to unite them to one another and to consolidate them to one nation. Each colony saw a separate existence and government within reach, …showed first 75 words of 925 total…

…showed last 75 words of 925 total…as the intellectual ties of association. The circumstance which makes it easy to maintain a Federal government in America is not only that the states have similar interests, a common origin, and a common language, but that they have also arrived at the same stage of civilization, which almost always renders a union feasible. In giving the federal government ultimate authority over state governments, American's created a governmental system that is an effective policy maker.