A. 1) A federal government decentralizes the administration of governmental services along with gives the states more power than in unitary governments. They also allow for more diversity and are usually democracies.

2) I would rather live in a unitary government because the U.S has already failed as a confederation. While a unitary government doesn't allow for as much freedom for the states as a confederation or federalism, a confederation allows for too much freedom of the states and would create much more inner conflicts. There would be no solid form of central government to keep the states together and in union, possibly creating multiple civil wars and eventually anarchy.

B. 1) A power enumerated solely to the national government is the power to declare war. This is better to be given solely to the national government because separate states can't go around declaring war. If they did this, then they'd also have to be given the power to raise an army, and each state owning it's own army would lead to greater domestic conflicts as well as foreign conflicts. The U.S would be involved in much more conflicts and each state would have to rally other states into the wars they'd be involved with to expand the size of their small army, spreading the battle.

2) One power reserved solely to the states is to conduct elections. This is better to be reserved for the states because a national government does not have the time to set up a government in each state and city. The national government has to focus on bigger worldwide issues and leave the states to the smaller problems within their own borders.

3) Both the state and national government have the power to tax. This works out because both need forms of collecting money to fund public projects and help improve society on both a national and local level. The national government needs taxes to fund projects nationwide such as highways while the states need taxes to fund public schools and other works.