Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment : the irony of constitutional democracy /
Abraham Lincoln worried that the 'walls' of the constitution would ultimately be leveled by the 'silent artillery of time.' His fears materialized with the 1913 ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment, which, by eliminating federalism's structural protection, altered the v...
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
2001
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