Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. The twin decisions in United States v. Windsor and Hollingsworth v. Perry share an unexpected unifying theme – state ...

Randy Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, and Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution Because the logic of Justice ...

With the 2012 election completed Washington faces a daunting overhang of substantial economic, fiscal, and governance problems. Reform must begin now. Yet from where will the impetus for progress come ...

“Federalism” is not ― as the word might suggest ― a system in which the federal government dominates. Rather, it is a system in which the powers of government are divided between a national government ...

The U.S. Constitution is explicit about the division of power, not just between the three branches, but between the federal government and the states. President Trump has been aggressively pushing ...

It is the structure of our constitution that has made America a beacon of freedom in the world and has secured our individual liberties, federal appeals court judge William H. Pryor Jr. said at AEI on ...

Sitting in on one of Erin Ryan's classes on negotiation, natural resources law, or property law, one wouldn't necessarily guess that this associate professor at William & Mary Law School is also an ...

Politics of Federalism in Pakistan by Mehrunnisa Ali is a critical study of the difficulties this country had to face in the making of the three constitutions — of 1956, 1962 and 1973 — we have had.

Richard Nixon in the Oval Office in 1972. He believed in a federal government whose job was to provide financial help to states and localities — and then to get out of the way. (Richard Nixon ...