The Federal Principle

In recent years growing dissatisfaction with the corruption and inefficiency of central governments has led many people to see federalism as the solution to a variety of modern dilemmas. In the US alone, federalism has been offered as the answer to the problems of poverty and welfare, ethnic and religious conflicts, the public school bureaucracy, urban maladministration as well as high taxes and fiscal mismanagement. There is also a society of World Federalists and many similar organizations which identify the federal principle with their comprehensive plans for world government. The relation of the various American and European federalist proposals to what may be called the classical federalist theories of Althusius, Madison, and Calhoun is not always clear

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