Incredulity at this overreading of federal authority was a foundational premise of the conservative legal movement. Many of its early successes involved explicitly curtailing the old New Deal ...

Federalism is a system of government where power is shared between a central authority and smaller regional governments. Many countries adopt federalism to manage ethnic diversity within their borders ...

This piece originally appeared on BillMoyers.com. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the first of its “name and shame” lists last week, intent upon intimidating 96 sanctuary cities — ...

In Governing’s first issue almost 25 years ago, John Herbers, who had just retired as a national correspondent for The New York Times, wrote a cover story heralding the advent of a largely unplanned, ...

Abstract: "Federalism" is no outdated concept. The founding fathers of the American Republic are the authors of a brilliant design of the distribution of political power between the national ...

On September 17, in his speech to civil and religious authorities in Westminster, Benedict XVI underlined a peculiar political character very similar to the vision of the Doctrine of the Church’s ...

EMMANUEL MACRON’S agenda for strengthening the European Union has revived talk of a “federal Europe”. The French president’s ambition will be easier to achieve without Britain: it has tended to follow ...