Yet we must admit that through their work we have learned to take very seriously the total biblical story, reading with deeper insight the truths which are there stated not in propositions but in the events
of history and in the response made to those events in the experience
of men and women immersed in the
ordinary affairs of daily
life.
The state governments, Madison argues, are closer to the people and can focus on the welfare
of the people, regulating
ordinary affairs such as the
lives, liberties, and properties
of the people, as well as the internal order
of each state, and should have numerous undefined powers to do so, while the national government, being bigger and possessing national resources, can bring victory in war, protect the people's liberty, and maintain peace between the states, and should have clear, few, defined powers to do so, mostly focusing on external objects such as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce and national taxation.