Problem
The states are known as laboratories of democracy. Below is the origin of the quote.
"Back in the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan was president, there was a lot of buzz around the idea that the states would become -- in the words of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis - "laboratories of democracy" where policy innovations could be hatched and experimented with and then spread across the nation" (Fulton, 2017).
How do you perceive the functions of the states as a laboratory?