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Help! This essay question is due Tuesday and I have the other essay questions for this assignment done except this one.

How did the Framers of the Constitution balance the competing claims of local self-government, sectional interests, and national authority?

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they ambiguously left all things not in the constitution to the states to make them happy, and created the "necessary and proper" clause to give the federal government opportunity to govern.
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