Keeping the compound republic : essays on American federalism
Publisher Fact Sheet The framers of the U.S. Constitution focused intently on the difficulties of achieving a workable middle ground between national & local authority. They located that middle ground in a new form of federalism that James Madison called the "compound republic." The term conveys the intent of the framing generation to make comprehensible what otherwise is bewildering to the modern citizenry: a form of government that divides & disperses official power between majorities of two different kinds--one composed of individual voters, & the other, of the distinct political societies we call states. America's federalism is the subject of this collection of essays by Martha Derthick, a leading scholar of American government
Print Book, English, ©2001
Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., ©2001
Essay
ix, 196 pages ; 23 cm
9780815702023, 9780815702030, 9780815798446, 0815702027, 0815702035, 081579844X
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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?