Showing posts with label consolidation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consolidation. Show all posts
Friday, November 6, 2020

American Federalism Eclipsed by an Ideal of Democracy: Education Over Immigration as a Constitutional Problem

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The U.S. Constitution includes immigration as one of the listed (i.e., enumerated) powers of the federal government. Education is not such a...
Friday, May 31, 2019

Encroaching Political Consolidation: The Weakening of the U.S. Federal System

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It is much easier to point out the sliver in the other person's eye than the plank in one’s own. Regarding the gradual political consol...
Friday, December 14, 2018

On the Eclipse of Russian Federalism: Implications for the E.U. and U.S.

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Dmitri Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation, fired Yuri Luzhkov in September, 2010, after Luzhkov, the mayor of Moscow (legally a ...
Friday, May 11, 2018

On the Virtue of a Constitutional Moment: Reassessing the American System of Government

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A constitutional moment engaging the citizenry is urgently needed with respect to the system of government in the United States. In short, ...
Friday, April 13, 2018

Eleven Time Zones in Russia: A Problem of Consolidated Empire

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As of 2011, Russia had 11 time zones, from the Polish border to near Alaska, a system so vast that a traveller could get a walloping case o...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Consolidation in Russia: Federalism and Democracy at Risk

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United Russia, the party led by Prime Minister Putin, decided in August, 2010 not to submit the name of the governor of Kaliningrad, Georgy...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Federalizing the Criminal Code: Racial Opportunity Costs

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On December 13, 2011, a bipartisan group of legal experts told a panel of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives that the federal c...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Van Rompuy as the European Council's First Extended-Term President

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“In a sense, Europe seemed to be living down to expectations. Earlier, the foreign minister of Sweden, Carl Bildt, warned against a 'mi...
Thursday, July 4, 2013

The Checks and Balances of Federalism: Hungary vs. the European Parliament

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One of the benefits of federalism is the checks and balances between the two systems of government existing in a federal system—that of t...
Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Is a Stronger Euro in Europe’s Interest? In America’s?

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Speaking at the European Parliament in early February 2013, Francois Hollande of France castigated the floating exchange rate of the euro...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Bulgaria Shrugs Off the Euro

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In early September 2012, Reuters reported that Bulgaria had “abandoned plans to adopt the single currency in response to deteriorating econ...
Wednesday, July 4, 2012

SCOTUS: Congress Coercing States to Expand Medicaid

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The aspect of the court’s decision on “Obamacare” that forbids Congress (and the President) from threatening states by withholding...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

No State Left Behind: American Education Eclipsing Federalism

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Facing a federal requirement that every student be proficient in math and English by 2014, the member-states in the U.S. rushed to apply for...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Weakened U.S. Federalism as a Cause of the Financial Crisis

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Weakening federalism in the name of preemptive deregulation played a major role in enabling the financial crisis of 2008. Specifically, Ca...
Friday, December 17, 2010

The Affordable Care Act Running Up Against Federalism

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According to Newsweek, "Conservatives have been quick to declare that "ObamaCare is on life support" in the wake of federal ...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Consolidation of Power in the American and Roman Empires: On the Rise and Fall of Empires

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The American federal government was for at least a century, and perhaps even longer, primarily involved in defending the new empire and r...