1. Describe the primary differences in the role of citizens in government, among the federal, confederation, and unitary systems.

In the federal system, power is a division between larger and smaller governments to handle national importance in the country, in the confederation system the smaller government has more power giving the people more freedom of speech, whereas, the unitary system one government is in control and the citizens have no power.

2. Briefly explain how you understand the system of division of power.

The division of power divides the government into three different branches and those are legislative, executive and judicial therefore to share power and to have every system carry out its own appointed tasks and responsibilities for the country. However, federalism divided power between two levels of government which are national and subnational. 

3. How does the federal government shape the actions of state and local governments? Write your answer based on doing a bit of research on how the federal government has influenced the actions of NY state and local governments, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

One way the federal government could have influenced the state of government was through the distribution of grants for those who were unemployed, distribution of masks, tonics and sanitizers and much more to prevent the virus from spreading.