(Source: The Heritage Foundation) Abstract Federalism is at the heart of American constitutional government. The U.S. Constitution, centered on the division of power between the national and state governments, simultaneously unites Americans as a national whole while protecting their freedoms as the citizens of particular states. During the Civil War, Orestes Augustus Brownson, one of America's premier political theorists, urged his fellow citizens to rededicate themselves to the federal Constitution when the American Republic was threatened by national dissolution. With the Republic today threatened by a relentless centralization of arbitrary and intrusive national power, Brownson's...
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