Keeping the compound republic : essays on American federalism / Martha Derthick.

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: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2001.
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