The Biden administration wants electric vehicles to make up half of car sales by 2030, but that plan depends on action from the states. Yogi Berra told us that “it's tough to make predictions, ...

Richard Nixon in the Oval Office in 1972. He believed in a federal government whose job was to provide financial help to states and localities — and then to get out of the way. (Richard Nixon ...

Anyone who has taken an introductory American politics class probably remembers the way that America's system of federalism has been divided by scholars into "eras" based on understandings about the ...

Does the bipartisan act protecting same-sex marriage run afoul of constitutional federalism principles? The answer is definitely not with respect to one of its provisions, and probably not with ...

In the American plan of constitutional government, the national government was never supposed to have all of the power or make all of the decisions. Indeed, most powers of government were located, and ...

Federalism is a simple concept: The states, not the federal government, should control most issues. Unfortunately, America has long since abandoned most forms of Federalism. Most laws and policies in ...