Does the bipartisan act protecting same-sex marriage run afoul of constitutional federalism principles? The answer is definitely not with respect to one of its provisions, and probably not with ...

Those who have applauded the Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling claim that an important public policy issue has been appropriately returned to the democratic process (even though many of them also praised ...

Those who have applauded the Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling claim that an important public policy issue has been appropriately returned to the democratic process (even though many of them also praised ...

Robert Moffit, Ph.D., is a senior research fellow in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation. The COVID-19 crisis offered excellent lessons in the advantages of federalism, ...

The Complexity of Federalism and Cannabis Law How can three-fourths of the states have laws in direct conflict with a federal statute? This article answers that question by exploring the history of ...

Republican lawmakers are taking a victory lap over the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling early Friday which overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision which gave women the right to an abortion nationwide.

In 2005, President George W. Bush signed into law the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), a statute designed to protect gun makers, dealers, distributors, and importers from being sued ...

The current Supreme Court is rightly regarded as the most “federalism”-friendly court in at least a century. The court often uses the language of “state sovereignty,” a thoroughly mysterious, but ...

British ambassador to the United States Lord James Bryce, in his late-19th century analysis of our political institutions, "The American Commonwealth," called Rhode Island the American state “which ...

To the editor: The best part of the recent Dobbs vs. Jackson decision by the U.S. Supreme Court is that the justices are not willing to, nor interested in, writing law. It is the job of the ...