Why are states called "laboratories of democracy"? The term comes from the nineteenth century, when state politics were more scientific than the machine politics of cities. Most new social policy ideas are tried by one or two states before being adopted by other states or by the federal government. The federal government experiments with policies by ordering the states to try them first. States are not bound by constitutions to a particular way of doing things, so they experiment.

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Why are states called "laboratories of democracy"? The term comes from the nineteenth century, when state politics were more scientific than the machine politics of cities. Most new social policy ideas are tried by one or two states before being adopted by other states or by the federal government. The federal government experiments with policies by ordering the states to try them first. States are not bound by constitutions to a particular way of doing things, so they experiment.

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Malcolm Shaffer · Answer 1

States are called "laboratories of democracy" because most new social policy ideas are tried by one or two states before being adopted by other states or by the federal government.

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The phrase "laboratories of democracy" refers to the role that states fulfill within the democratic, legal, and cultural process of elaboration, sanction, and application of laws and social policies in the United States.

Thus, the measures, laws and policies that can be applied at the federal level first go through a series of tests, tests and improvements, which are carried out in the states, so that if they do not work they do not affect the country in a whole, but a part of it.