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The federal government has a large and growing presence in state and local policy activities. This rising intervention has been facilitated by “grants-in-aid,” which are programs that combine federal subsidies with topdown regulations to micromanage state and local affairs. A new analysis...
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On April 5, 2012, President Barack Obama signed into law a new federal securities law exemption for crowdfunded securities offerings. Crowdfunding — the use of the Internet to raise small amounts of money from a large number of contributors — has become incredibly popular outside the...
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This Article presents a new frame of reference for thinking about the federal government's complicity in supporting the domestic slave trade in the antebellum United States. While scholars have accounted for several methods of such support, they have failed to consider how federal bankruptcy...
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There is growing interest in states regulating pharmaceuticals in ways that challenge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) federal oversight. For example, in 2013 Maine enacted a law to permit the importation of unapproved drugs, reflecting concerns that federal requirements are too...
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President Reagan's proposal for a "New Federalism" raises a fundamental challenge to our current structure of Federal …-state-local fiscal relations.This research examInes the lIkely consequences of the New Federalism for fiscal allocations by state … and more on tax relief and the numerous other state activities. Second, the New Federalism, as it relaxes the spending …
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In federal political orders political authority is divided, often constitutionally, between at least two levels so that units at each level have final authority and can be self governing in some issue area
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Federalism is the theory or advocacy of federal principles for dividing powers between member units and common …-making bodies. Much recent philosophical attention is spurred by renewed political interest in federalism, coupled with empirical …
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Federalism has received more philosophical attention recently, partly due to renewed political interest in federalism … has also spurred philosophical study. Federalism is the theory or advocacy of federal political orders, where citizens …
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published this fall in the William and Mary Law Review, analyzes the status of federalism under the Obama Administration. At … first glance, federalism would seem to have fared poorly under the Obama Administration, given that the Administration … demonstrates that the story of federalism’s fate under the Obama Administration is not so simple. To be sure, these measures entail …
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