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September 17, 2018

Change Called for in Myanmar’s Amendment Process

Jesse Hartery writes that as Myanmar considers moving toward a federal structure, it should also consider changes to its current constitutional amendment procedure. The…

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American Federalism

September 17, 2018

Gerrymandering Opponents Shift Strategy

Frustrated by lengthy court battles over gerrymandering, opponents in some states are pushing for new approaches to the issue. These include efforts to have…

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September 17, 2018

Nigeria’s Federal Character Principle

Iyabode Ogunniran provides an overview of Nigeria's constitution and examines whether insertion of the "Federal Character Principle" in the constitution in 1979 has truly…

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September 17, 2018

Cities, States, Businesses Combat Global Warming

Tony Barboza reports that, along with cities and states, businesses are increasingly taking the lead in combating global warming as the federal government's leadership…

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September 17, 2018

States Prepare to Implement Medicaid Work Requirements

After Arkansas recently used new work requirements to drop more than 4,000 people from its Medicaid rolls, other states are set to do the…

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American Federalism

September 17, 2018

New Deduction Cap Drives Competition Among States

Chris Edwards writes that the cap on the state-and-local tax deduction in last year's tax law has forced states to compete with one another.…

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American Federalism

September 14, 2018

Is There a Federal Power to Restrict Immigration?

Ilya Somin contends that the Constitution has no general federal power to restrict immigration. Somin urges constitutional originalists to note the lack of an…

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American Federalism

September 14, 2018

Trump and the Tenth Amendment

In this podcast, titled "Federalism 2.0," Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca assert that President Trump's populism represents a danger to the nation that can be…

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American Federalism

September 14, 2018

U.S. Education Department Loses Student Loan Lawsuit

This week a group of 19 states prevailed in a lawsuit that accused the Department of Education of wrongly delaying implementation of Obama-administration rules intended to…

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September 14, 2018

Patient Care and Fiscal Federalism in Italy

Paolo Berta, Carla Guerriero, and Rosella Levaggi analyze the effects of fiscal federalism on the quality of patient care in Lombardy. The authors contend that…

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September 13, 2018

Fiscal Federalism Issues in Nepal

In this op-ed, Laxmi Bilas Koirala writes that the National Natural Resources and Fiscal Commission can play a vital role in promoting cooperation among…

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September 13, 2018

Altiero Spinelli Remembered

The New Federalist has published a portrait of the life of one of the "founding fathers" of the European Union, Altiero Spinelli. Read more here.

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September 12, 2018

Federalism, the Incorporation Doctrine, and the European Union

Lee J. Strang provides an overview of the U.S. Supreme Court's process of incorporating the Bill of Rights against the states. Strang contends that…

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