A poll conducted in July 2022 found that 55 percent of Americans consider the federal protection of people's constitutional rights more important than the ability of individual states to make their own laws. This is compared to 28 percent of respondents who felt it more important for individual states to make their own laws with minimal interference from the federal government.
Opinion of Americans on the importance of the federal government protecting constitutional rights versus individual state power in the United States in 2022
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YouGov. (July 11, 2022). Opinion of Americans on the importance of the federal government protecting constitutional rights versus individual state power in the United States in 2022 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved August 25, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1322188/opinion-importance-federal-protections-vs-state-power-us/
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