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Making Federalism Doctrine, Ernest A. Young
Making Federalism Doctrine, Ernest A. Young
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This article develops and defends a general approach to constitutional federalism doctrine. My position is probably best described as sympathetic criticism of the Rehnquist Court’s “Federalist Revival.” I think that the Court’s project of reviving a judicial role in enforcing federalism is terribly important, but that many of the Court’s particular measures in that vein are unhelpful or, sometimes, counterproductive.
The article makes three claims. The first is methodological: I argue that courts can and should formulate doctrines to enforce the federal balance, even when those doctrines cannot be tied directly to constitutional text and history. Recognizing that constitutional doctrine …