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Showing posts with label federalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label federalism. Show all posts
Saturday, April 10, 2010

Why the Tea Party Doth Protest Enough

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The above graph shows the growth in total government spending, including state, local and federal, divided by gross domestic product, since ...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

America In Extremis

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The time has come to spin off the federal government and download it onto the states, leaving just national defense, interstate commerce and...
Sunday, November 22, 2009

NRA Files Brief in McDonald v. City of Chicago

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I just received the following e-mail from the National Rifle Association. The NRA "asks the US to apply the Second Amendment to state ...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Aristotle: Federal Government Not A State

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In Politics (1279-81) Aristotle argues that states exist for the sake of a good life. The Declaration of Independence restates this when J...
Monday, June 8, 2009

De Jouvenal on State Sovereignty

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Decentralization is a managerial tool that has proven to be essential to conglomerates and other large organizations. With respect to politi...
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Thursday, June 4, 2009

De Jouvenal on the Public Loss Function

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The notion of a loss function is the basis of total quality management. Quality losses appear when the realization of an output deviates fro...
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Friday, April 10, 2009

The Unity Philosophy Failed Because Laissez Faire Succeeded

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In the US, the notion that there needs to be a strong central state began with the Federalist Papers. The Federalists left a considerable de...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Federalist's Argument for Union

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John Jay, Federalist No. 5: "Should the people of America divide themselves into three or four nations, would not...jealousies arise? I...
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Monday, January 26, 2009

Rationality and Decentralization in Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws

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In his famous article "The Nature of the Firm", Ronald Coase claimed that firms exist because they are cost minimizing. It is chea...
Friday, August 29, 2008

The Beginning of Cafeteria Societies

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John Locke's Second Treatise of Government * makes the case that governments are instituted by the consent of the governed and that gove...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Hamilton on Federalism: The Federalist Papers No. 32-34

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The Federalist Nos. 32 and 33 concern taxation. The constitution did not aim to consolidate the states into a single whole. Rather, "th...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Hamilton on the Limits of Decentralization

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Federalism has always meant a partnership among the states and between the states and the federal government. Just as there are certain publ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2008

The Federalist Number 24 and the Scope of Government

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In the Federalist Number 24 Hamilton makes the following statement about the powers that the Constitution confers upon the federal governmen...
Monday, June 30, 2008

The Federalist 14 and Decentralizaton

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In the Federalist 14, Madison argues that while direct democracy is possible only in a small country, a republic can cover a larger geograph...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Social System Matching and the Expertise Culture

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In the twentieth century the idea of convergence was suggested to explain the trend of socialist economies to look more like capitalist ones...