Question

A criticism of the American system of federalism is that it is

Answer 1

Easy to corrupt; gridlocks from congress to president....

Answer 2

Doesn't offer a lot of scope for would-be Napoleons or Caesars. Doesn't offer as much opportunity for a single minority point of view to take over and dictate where the nation goes, e.g. the way right now the European Central Bank and the EU administrators in Brussels are telling a hundred million or so Greek, German, Italian and Spanish citizens what is going to happen to their mortgages, savings, pensions and jobs. Under American federalism, no institution can easily acquire the kind of power needed to rule that undemocratically.