Keeping the compound republic : essays on American federalism

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Derthick, Martha
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Federal government > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civics & Citizenship.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > State.
Federal government
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • 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?

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