Allen Guelzo explores how the nation's founders viewed the challenge of balancing national and state power. Read more here.
Eric Clifford Graf considers whether federalism should be viewed as a virtue or a structure. Read more here.
Aila Hoss catalogs the many different definitions of "Indian" that appear in federal statutes and regulations. Read more here.
R. George Wright contends that certain issues lend themselves to conflict among the states -- particularly dormant commerce clause cases in which one state attempts to coerce producers…
Tom W. Bell explores the Catawba Digital Economic Zone (CDEZ), the world’s first entirely virtual special jurisdiction devoted to financial services using technologies like…
Andrew Coan and David S. Schwartz contend that "unfounded assumptions of Federalist objectivity and Anti-Federalist irrelevance" have warped scholars' understanding of the constitutional ratification…
Alexandra Fay examines criminal jurisdiction in Indian Country to describe the current state of tribal status within American federalism. Read more here.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has produced a promotional video about ALEC and its view of American federalism. You can view the video…
Donald F. Kettl considers Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis's hopes to implement some Florida policies on a national scale and asks, "can a candidate really…
Adam Reed Moore writes that the particular ways The Federalist Papers suggested that states "protect liberty have, to a large extent, passed from public consciousness."…
Gerald S. Dickinson calls on the U.S. Supreme Court to announce the "judicial federalization doctrine," which, he contends, would establish "a consistent practice of…
John P. LaVelle contends that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta is nothing more than "one Supreme Court opinion's errant narrative" of tribal relations…
Beckett Cantley and Geoffrey Dietrich analyze the actions of Texas and other states in dealing directly with immigration issues. Read more here.
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