As Madison Points Out in Federalist No

As Madison points out in Federalist No. 10, since the states and the national government combine the citizenry's preferences into different groupings, the two levels of government do which of the following?

A) They usually adopt almost identical policies to address the same problem.
B) They are always responsive to the same coalitions of people.
C) They may adopt different, even opposite, policies to address the same problem.
D) They operate in an unequal way; the states can leave all of the difficult decision-making about policy to the federal government.