At the New York Times, veteran legal journalist Linda Greenhouse notes some of the cheerleading (from progressives even more than from conservatives) for the probability that the Supreme Court will ...

America’s highly polarized politics can pressure public officials to pursue partisan interests at the expense of constitutional principles. This mutation of principle is playing out now in the ...

Cheryl Saunders receives funding from the Australian Research Council. This initiative follows years of mounting concern about the operation of federalism in Australia. These concerns should not be ...

Abstract: Although the Constitution’s great structural principles of federalism and separation of powers are designed to guard against the abuse of governmental power and secure individual liberty, ...

There has always been this assumption made by some Nigerian intellectuals and politicians concerning the concept and practice of federalism. That assumption is that the principles of federalism are ...

The problem isn’t too little federalism, argues Michael Greve, but the wrong kind of federalism. At a Tuesday AEI and Federalist Society event, panelists examined Michael Greve’s groundbreaking legal ...

Columnist Scott Clem writes, "The Constitution is not self‑executing. It requires guardians. And if Wyoming doesn’t choose guardians, we shouldn’t ...

Lately some state legislatures have been considering so-called "sovereignty resolutions." Rather than pass strictly symbolic measures, however, I recommended--in an op-ed last month in The Wall Street ...

A case before the U.S. Supreme Court could have surprising, and perhaps counterintuitive, implications for supporters of federalism and the long-protected ability of states and municipalities to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I explore the intersection of economics and culture. Washington's fiscal situation has been in disarray for decades. President ...

As the fight over election reform heats up in Congress, the White House is ramping up the rhetoric, declaring that President Biden and Vice President Harris are “incensed by the anti-voter laws that ...