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• California Illustrates Need to Revive Federalism

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  The state of California recently received $60 million in U.S. Department of Labor stimulus funds to upgrade its 23 year-old unemployment benefits system. But according to the Associated Press , California is yet to spend $66 million it received from Labor in 2002 to upgrade its system. The price tag isn’t ...
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• LibertyWeek 71: The Politics of Booze

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 615
  Your hosts Richard Morrison and Jeremy Lott welcome guests Gregory Conko and Garrett Peck to Episode 71 of the LibertyWeek podcast . We start with an update on the latest in the Climate-Gate scandal and the impact of nanny state policies in New York City, then move on to Monsanto’s antitrust worries and finish with ...
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• Federalism–The Series–Part 4–The Powers

  
  Info Ink — Authority: 136
  Inkwell Institute Professor’s Classroom Subject:  Political Theory/American History/Government You now have a definition of federalism and you have the types and the whys….now do you know what powers the states have under the federalism cloak? State Government Powers As the Tenth ...
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• Will the Feds Cut Provincial Transfers to Balance the Books (Again)?

  
  The Progressive Economics Forum — Authority: 466
  As everybody who reads this blog knows,  then Finance Minister Paul Martin brought the federal budget back into balance in the mid 1990s by, in significant part,  slashing federal transfers to the provinces and eliminating automatic escalators in the new transfers he created. That cannot and will not be allowed to ...
  1 week ago

• Kevin Gutzman: Freedom vs the Courts

  
  Tenth Amendment Center — Authority: 582
  Add to iTunes Kevin Gutzman, best-selling author and expert on American Constitutional history, discusses the 14th Amendment and the Incorporation Doctrine, how the doctrine has given us government by judiciary instead of government by representation, the Due Process clause, Substantive Protections vs. Due ...
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• President is taking a peculiar position

  
  Letters to the Editor — Authority: 143
  The founding fathers had an inspiration for this the organization of this nation.  The infrastructure of government set up by these men had it so that there would be three branches overlapping in authority, but none the less having specific…
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• Federalism–The Series–Part 3—The Why?

  
  Info Ink — Authority: 136
  Inkwell Institute Professor’s Classroom Subject:  Political Theory/Government/American History Now the question must be asked…..Why Federalism? The Framers of the Constitution created a federal system with a national government strong enough to unify the states in their ...
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• Obama’s Fake Federalism

  
  Tenth Amendment Center — Authority: 582
  by Gene Healy, CATO Institute This article appeared in the DC Examiner on November 17, 2009. Friends of federalism cheered last month when the Obama administration reversed the Bush policy of prosecuting medical marijuana cases in states that have legalized the practice. Welcome though that change was, let’s ...
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• Ramsey: International Wrongs, State Law Remedies, and Presidential Policies

  
  International Law Reporter — Authority: 145
  Michael D. Ramsey (Univ. of San Diego - Law) has posted International Wrongs, State Law Remedies, and Presidential Policies . Heres the abstract: This article, prepared as part of Loyola of Los Angeles Law School’s symposium “Litigating Genocide,” considers the power of U.S. states to provide remedies for ...
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• Sovereignty, Federalism and Class Actions

  
  ClassActionBlawg.com — Authority: 407
  Daniel Wise of the New York Law Journal has an interesting article  out today on a recent New York state court decision involving a complex dispute over assets of former Philippines dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, being held by Merrill Lynch in New York.  The court ordered that the funds be paid to satisfy part ...
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• Could an Individual Mandate Violate Article I, Section 9?

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 766
  Most discussions about the constitutionality of an individual mandate in health care reform proposals have focused on whether such a mandate could be justified under the federal government’s enumerated powers in Article I, section 8. (See, e.g., these VC posts .)  Some (including me) have opined that, under ...
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• Where we’re going wrong

  
  Perri Nelson's Website — Authority: 122
  I just responded to a comment left by Debbie on my previous post. Thinking about it for a moment, I’ve come to realize that all of the attention I’ve been putting on our founding documents and that we put on national politics isn’t enough, so I’ve decided to reproduce that comment here. I think when we focus ...
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• LibertyWeek 69: Feeding the World with Property Rights

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 615
  Richard Morrison throws in with Jeremy Lott and William Yeatman to bring you Episode 69 of the LibertyWeek podcast . We start by pigging out on swine flu statistics, putting off action on global warming and wagging our finger at a corrupt judge. We proceed with the fight between Intel and AMD and wrap up with an ...
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• Everybodys talking about the Privileges and Immunities Clause.

  
  Althouse — Authority: 744
  And guns.
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• A Tapestry of Issues for the Tenth Amendment

  
  Anchor Rising — Authority: 438
  The Tenth Amendment, for those who need reminding, reads as follows: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people Its conceivable that a partial explanation for the states permitting the erosion of ...
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• Federalism–The Series–Part 2–Types

  
  Info Ink — Authority: 136
  Inkwell Institute Professor’s Classroom Subject:  American History/Political Theory A few quick facts on federalism—28 countries have  some sort of federal system…..about 40% of the world’s population live with a type of federal government. There are some distinctive characteristics that define ...
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• November 16 roundup

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 607
  German law firm demands that Wikipedia remove true information about now-paroled murderers [ EFF ] “Class Actions: Some Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Fed Up, Too?” [ California Civil Justice ] Drop that Irish coffee and back away: “F.D.A. Says It May Ban Alcoholic Drinks With Caffeine” [ NYT ] Profile of L.A. ...
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• Subnational Authoritarianism in Russia

  
  La Russophobe — Authority: 435
  Vladimir Gelman, a professor in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the European University in St. Petersburg, writing in the Russian Analytical Digest:The practice of subnational authoritarianism in the Soviet period was the “point of departure” for processes of decentralization in the 1990s and ...
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• How to Brainwash a Nation

  
  Repeal the 17th Amendment — Authority: 137
  When government is decentralized, "The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States. A religious sect may degenerate into a political faction in a part of the Confederacy; but the variety of sects ...
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• Choosing Federalism, Choosing Freedom

  
  Tenth Amendment Center — Authority: 582
  by Timothy Baldwin After the release of my last column “Freedom’s Destruction by Constitutional De-Construction ,” I received so many responses to my statement, “The people of the states [must] once again reject this national form of government and assert and defend the principles of federalism,” ...
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