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Keeping the Compound Republic

Essays on American Federalism

Keeping the Compound Republic( )
Author: Derthick, Martha
ISBN:978-0-8157-0203-0
Publication Date:Sep 2001
Publisher:Brookings Institution Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $25.00
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The framers of the U. S. Constitution focused intently on the difficulties of achieving a workable middle ground between national and local authority. They located that middle ground in a new form of federalism that James Madison called the ""compound republic."" The term conveys the complicated and ambiguous intent of the framing generation and helps to make comprehensible what otherwise is bewildering to the modern citizenry: a form of government that divides and disperses...
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Book Details
Pages:208
Detailed Subjects: Political Science / History & Theory
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.98 x 9.04 x 0.59 Inches
Book Weight:0.73 Pounds



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