"The Federalist on Federalism: 'Neither a National Nor a Federal Constitution, but a Composition of Both'" Yale Law Review 86.6 (May 1977): 1273-285.

In his essays on American federalism, Diamond argued that we would benefit from a more precise understanding of the nature of federalism as the founders bequeathed it to us—or, more accurately, of their intended constitutional “composition” of federalism and nationalism. In this essay, prepared for a Yale Law Journal symposium on federalism in 1977, Diamond explains how this more accurate understanding will help us to preserve the composition’s vital, decentralizing features—some of which appear within the very structure of the central government itself, but are hidden from view by the muddled, contemporary definition of federalism.

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