Table of Contents
Contributors ix
Introduction: Federalism and Public Law Theory Amnon Lev 1
I Making Public Law Work as Theory 3
II Modes of Federalism 11
III Aspects of the Federal Idea: An Overview of the Volume 17
Part I Theorising Federalism
1 The Federal Condition Nicholas Aroney 29
I The Liberal Condition 30
A Hobbes and Locke 30
B Altruisms 32
C Madison 34
D Arendt 38
II The Federal Condition 40
A Personal Relations 40
B Social Relations 42
C Political Relations 45
D Coercive Relations 48
2 Federation and Empire: About a Conceptual Distinction of Political Forms Olivier Beaud 53
I The Federation as a Political Form and its Relation to Empire 54
II The Ideal Typical Opposition between Federation and Empire 59
III An Illustration in Law: Federative Compact and Federal Treaty 62
IV Some Remarks on Unity and Diversity 68
3 Towards a Deontic-Axiomatic Theory of Federal Adjudication Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens 75
I Preliminary Remarks 80
A Thinking That What You Do Not See Does Not Exist Could Be Wrong 80
B Federalism is Not Merely Subservient to Other, More Fundamental, Values 83
C A Legal Theory of Federalism is Possible 88
II Ambitions and Limits of a Normative, Deontic-Axiomatic Theory of Federalism 92
A Such a Theory is Both Modest and Ambitious 93
B Such a Theory Seeks to Enhance the Constitutional Potential of Each Federal Actor 94
C Such a Theory Assumes the Crucial Role of the Judiciary in a Federation 95
D Such a Theory Reflects a Dynamic Conception of Constitutional Interpretation 97
III Conclusion 99
Part II Governing the Federation
4 Federalism and the Separation of Powers Jessica Bulman-Pozen 107
I Cooperative and Uncooperative Federalism 109
II Checking the Federal Executive on Behalf of Congress 110
A Checking the Federal Executive 111
B Championing Congressional Authority 112
C Reinvigorating Horizontal Checks 116
III Fractal Separation of Powers 118
A Competition 118
B Separation 121
IV Conclusion 123
5 Federalism as a Mode of Governance: Autonomy, Identity, Power, and Rights Edward L Rubin 125
I The Essence of Federalism: Partial Political Autonomy 126
II The Motivation for Federalism: Divergent Political Identity 129
III The Features of Federalism as a Modality of Government 132
IV The Normative Basis for Federalism 136
A Negative and Positive Rights and Federalism 136
B Group Rights and Federalism 139
V Conclusion 144
6 Executive Power in Federations Cheryl Saunders 145
I Federal Design 146
II Separation of Powers 150
III Australia 154
A Federal Design 154
B Separation of Powers 156
C Breadth and Depth 158
D A Compound Conception of Federal Executive Power 159
E Unfinished Business 162
IV Conclusions 164
Part III Federal Trajectories
7 Wood row Wilson and the Challenge of Federalism in World War One Duncan Kelly 167
I Woodrow Wilson on Democracy and Federalism 168
II Pan-Nationalism 175
III Federation and Federalism 183
8 Federalism and the Ends of Europe Amnon Lev 189
I Federalism in the European State System 190
II Theorising the Federation 195
III Crisis and Post-Humanism: Federalising Europe 201
9 Federalism and Democracy: The Far-Reaching Dynamism of Democratic Federations Dwight Newman 211
I Federalism and Democracy in the Secession Reference 213
II Federalism as a Response to Divided Demoi 215
III Federalism and the Construction of Divided Demos-Identities 220
IV Federalism, Democracy, and Dynamism 222
10 Federalism and the Plurinational Challenge Stephen Tierney 227
I Federalism: Why Does it Matter, What is it? 228
II Inherent Tensions in the Federal Idea 232
III The Plurinational State and Federalism 233
IV Why Does this Matter? 235
V Plurinational Scholarship and the Liberal Theory of the State 236
VI Implications for Federal Theory and Practice 237
VII E Pluribus Unum: The Plurinational Challenge 238
VIII Plurmational Federation and Sovereignty 239
IX Conclusion 240
Index 243
