1. Some major social and economic innovations in the United States have begun with small-scale experiments on the state level. For example, Wyoming permitted women's suffrage 50 years before the 19th Amendment was ratified. Can you think of the other examples? What current state experiments might one day be taken up by the federal government?
2. The fragmentation and redundancies of the U.S federal system are expensive in terms of coordination and personnel costs. Would you favor or oppose greater consolidation? Why or why not?