One advantage of federalism in the United States is that state governments can

a. print their own money.
b. overturn federal laws with which they disagree.
c. act as "laboratories" for public-policy experimentation.
d. act as "renegades" and refuse to implement national policy.
e. deny federally guaranteed civil rights and liberties.


Ans: c. act as "laboratories" for public-policy experimentation.

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