Federalism as Another Separation of Powers [No. 86]

What is federalism and why is it needed?

Professor Steven Calabresi discusses how the US Constitution not only establishes a separation of powers within the national government, but also allows the individual states to retain significant powers of their own. Neither the federal government nor the state government can fully attain complete power over the citizens because they balance one another.

Professor Steven G. Calabresi is the Clayton J. & Henry R. Barber Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. He is Chairman of the Federalist Society's Board of Directors.

As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker.

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_Narrator_ : "What is (a principle of governing through maintaining several states of insecurity and inflation simultaneously under one corporate banner) that effectively rebrands the Crown's banKING?"
_Narrator, to self_ : "Well, as I Am dressed like one of the "Framers" within the anonymity of being an illustration, perceived as an instructor offering this unsolicited, freely distributed dissertation on the dynamics of _republic germinates democracy aborts confederacy and raises from it's placenta via the serendipity of popular vote_, this "Federal Supremacy through alleging the cooperation of all of the several states exists only by Executive enforcement of laws and taxes encumbered by the citizens of all the states" - well, here's my opinion about what it means because it's such an imaginary, lawless concept that an actual "plain language" and full disclosure definition does not _Factually_ exist outside of it' agency (verb) Wartime and _"In sir, x shon"_ . "
Me: " They're not wrong because he's a _Framer_ not a cartoon."
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