Religion & Law
: Constitutionally CorrectHorizontal Federalism
By Alliance Alert (index)
The Constitution allocates sovereign power between governments along two dimensions: a vertical plane that establishes a hierarchy and boundaries between federal and state authority, and a horizontal plane that attempts to coordinate fifty coequal states that must peaceably coexist.
Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 13, 2009 (boomark / email).

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