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The Ideological Origins of American Federalism

In this book, the author traces the history of American federal thought from its colonial beginnings in scattered provincial responses to British assertions of authority, to its emergence in the late eighteenth century as a normative theory of multilayered government. The core of this new federal id...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: LaCroix, Alison L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a well-constructed union
  • The federal idea
  • Dividing lawmaking power
  • The debates over sovereignty
  • Forging a federated union
  • The authority of a central government
  • Jurisdiction as the battlefield
  • Epilogue : federalism demystified.