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2005

Federalism

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Treaty Solutions From The Land Down Under: Reconciling American Federalism And International Law, Cyril R. Emery Mar 2005

Treaty Solutions From The Land Down Under: Reconciling American Federalism And International Law, Cyril R. Emery

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Federalism And The Allocation Of Sovereignty Beyond The State In The European Union, Ronald A. Brand Jan 2005

Federalism And The Allocation Of Sovereignty Beyond The State In The European Union, Ronald A. Brand

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Any discussion of federalism necessarily runs headlong into concepts of sovereignty, with both terms being subject to Tocqueville's statement that, in discussing federalism, "the human understanding more easily invents new things than new words." Thus, just as systems previously considered to have been "federal" at the dawn of the United States of America were something much different from what was developed for our nation at that time, so is the "federal" system of today's United States different from anything to which we make comparisons.

This article reviews a paper by Professor Peter Tettinger's, and extends his analysis. As Professor Tettinger …