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Federalism and the Pandemic
For statutory, practical, and constitutional reasons, states are on the front line.
The states have been out in front in dealing with the coronavirus. Apart from Trump’s tardy response to the crisis, there are reasons for this, involving limits on Trump’s authority, practicalities, and constitutional rulings. Statutory limits. As I discussed in a previous post, the President’s power to deal with an epidemic is mostly derived from …
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CONTINUE READINGDid the Founding Fathers Believe in a Strong Federal Government? You Betcha.
The whole point of the Constitution was to give the federal government more power.
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