Political Scientists Today See Federalism as ______

Political scientists today see federalism as ______.

A) a partnership between the national and state governments in which the state governments are the dominant partners
B) a bitter rivalry in which each level of government struggles to gain supremacy
C) a partnership between the national and state governments in which the federal government is the dominant partner
D) consisting of two totally separate levels of power that have little to do with each other
E) having evolved to the point at which the state governments really do not matter