To make a nation: The rediscovery of American federalism
Description
Lyndon Johnson heralded a “new federalism,” as did Ronald Reagan. It was left to the public to puzzle out what such a proclamation, coming from both ends of the political spectrum, could possibly mean. Of one thing we can be certain: theories of federalism, in whatever form they take, are still shaping our nation. The origin of these theories―what they meant to history and how they apply today―becomes clear in this book by one of our most distinguished writers on political thought.The great English republicans of the seventeenth century appear in this story along with their Amer...
ISBN(s)
0674602129, 9780674602120
