between state and federal spheres of power through traditional legal or semantic analysis of the constitution and previous …

The Constitution of Tonga, 132 years old in 2007 -- indeed one of the world's oldest extant constitutions -- has … recently, for the first time in history, been subjected to significant scrutiny by the people who live under it. The review … general elections of March 2005 have been among the most momentous in history.This paper attempts to stand back from the …

transaction-cost-political approaches. There has been some progress in recent years in developing such a "new economic theory of … federalism". Basic ideas and some insights of this theory are discussed with regard to the appropriate "federal" allocation of …

This Article is the first to systematically consider the Constitution’s identification, definition, and integration of … the physical spaces in which it applies. Knowing how the Constitution addresses a particular problem often requires … knowing where the problem arises. Yet despite the importance and pervasiveness of spatial references in the Constitution …

Given that the Constitution is ambiguous about how to enter into international trade agreements, what process squares … regime. So is there a democratic deficit here that should concern the U.S. Constitution? In this Article, I argue that … constitutional and democratic theory offer only ambiguous support for "popular constitutionalism" in international economic policy …