Keeping the compound republic : essays on American federalism /

The framers of the U.S. Constitution focused intently on the difficulties of achieving a workable middle ground between national and local authority. They located that middle ground in a new form of federalism that James Madison called the "compound republic." The term conveys the complica...

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Main Author: Derthick, Martha
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press ©2001.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctv7r40r8