Why was reagan a popular candidate for small businesses?

Reagan wanted to cut taxes, destroy labor unions, increase military expenditures and distribute more money to the business class not the working class. Also, he was anti-regulation of any kind; environmental, labor, urban and rural development, pushed for the privatization of historically public responsibilities ie. privatize schools, prisons, transportation systems, FAA, affordable housing, research and development, the military, energy, communication, etc.

"a government in which power is divided between state and national levels". federalism is a system of government in which entities such and state and province, share power with the national government.

the  equal rights amendment  (era) states: "equality  of  rights  under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of sex." congress first introduced the era in 1923, but the campaign for ratification took off in the 1960s during the  civil rightsmovement.