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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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press
©2001.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctv7r40r8 |
Sommario:
- One: Overview. 1. How many communities?
- Two: Properties and functions. 2. Enduring features. 3. The paradox of the middle tier. 4. Congress, the states, and the Supreme Court. 5. Income support programs and intergovernmental relations. 6. Up-to-date in Kansas City. 7. Federalism and the politics of tobacco
- Three: Evolution. 8. Progressivism and federalism (with John J. Dinan). 9. Roosevelt as Madison: Social Security and American Federalism. 10. Crossing thresholds: federalism in the 1960s. 11. Half-full or half-empty?