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Federalism on Trial
Paul Nolette
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Description for Federalism on Trial
Presents the first broadscale examination of the increasingly nationalized political activism of US state attorneys general. Focusing on coordinated state litigation as a form of national policymaking, Paul Nolette challenges common assumptions about the contemporary nature of American federalism. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPR; LAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system,” Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1932, “that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory, and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” It is one of the features of federalism in our day, Paul Nolette counters, that these “laboratories of democracy,” under the guidance of state attorneys general, are more apt to be dictating national policy than conducting contained experiments. In Federalism on Trial, Nolette presents the first broadscale examination of the increasingly nationalized political activism ... Read more
It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system,” Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1932, “that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory, and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” It is one of the features of federalism in our day, Paul Nolette counters, that these “laboratories of democracy,” under the guidance of state attorneys general, are more apt to be dictating national policy than conducting contained experiments. In Federalism on Trial, Nolette presents the first broadscale examination of the increasingly nationalized political activism ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of Kansas United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700620890
SKU
V9780700620890
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99-33
About Paul Nolette
Paul Nolette, who has worked as a litigation associate and served as chief legal counsel for the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, is assistant professor at Marquette University, USA.
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