The upside-down Constitution /
Over the course of the nation's history, the Constitution has been turned upside-down, Michael Greve argues in this provocative book. The Constitution's vision of a federalism in which local, state, and federal government compete to satisfy the preferences of individuals has given way to a...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part one. Foundations: Constitutionalism; federalism; constitutional structure
- Part two. Competitive federalism: Commerce and competition; corporations; federal common law; the fiscal constitution
- Part three. Transformation: Constitutional inversion; commerce, cartels, and concurrent powers; Erie's federalism; fiscal federalism revisited
- Part four. Our federalism: Federalism after the New Deal: rights, revenues, and regulation; from experiments to exploitation; the Supreme Court's federalism
- Part five. "Our federalism": the court, the nation, and the states; federalism among the states; conclusion: federalism at the crossroads.
