Keeping the Compound Republic: Essays on American Federalism

by Martha A. Derthick

Book Overview

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The framers of the U. S. Constitution focused intently on the difficulties of achieving a workable middle ground between national and local authority. They located that middle ground in a new form of federalism that James Madison called the ""compound republic."" The term conveys the complicated and ambiguous intent of the framing generation and helps to make comprehensible what otherwise is bewildering to the modern citizenry: a form of government...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815702035
• ISBN13: 9780815702030
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"