On their face, as holdings, these decisions respect the principles of federalism, honoring the exclusive ... noting specifically the fact that the State of New York’s decision to expand the definition ...

Amid all the scandals of his administration, Nixon was perhaps the last American president who governed with a clear theory of federalism in his head. Nixon boldly proclaimed a “New Federalism ...

Congress could pass a new law today that says ... argues that this is the right answer because federalism principles prohibit a federal definition of marriage that would allow people to be ...

Nonetheless, federalism underwent four distinct phases during four different eras in our constitutional history: post-Founding, post-Civil War, post-New Deal, and from the Rehnquist Court to today.

The Cato Institute has just published my policy analysis on “Libertarianism and Federalism,” which examines the extent to which federalism promotes libertarian objectives of expanding ...