Felix Morley on Freedom and Federalism

Federalism was central to Felix Morley's political thought because he regarded federalism as being essential to the protection of individual freedom in the United States. Federalism protects freedom, argued Morley, by limiting government, constraining the potential tyranny of a national majority, and reserving control over local affairs to local citizens. In turn, he believed that freedom is necessary for the maintenance of federalism. Freedom, however, was being threatened by the rise of the social-welfare state and a militaristic foreign policy, both justified in the name of a centralizing Jacobin democracy destructive of American federalism

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