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James Madison on Federalism circa 1786-87

November 10, 2021
Lee Ward

My focus is James Madison’s reflections upon federalism in the months prior to the Federal Convention in Philadelphia.  My premise is that we can gain valuable insights into the origin of the American idea of federalism by examining this seminal framer’s thoughts on the subject as he prepared for the Convention in the summer of [...]

Do We Need a Natural Law Theory of the State?

September 4, 2017
Lee Ward

Is natural law equipped to ground a normative theory of the liberal democratic state in this era of the great struggle between globalization and its opponents? Forty years ago, the famed Canadian political theorist C.B. Macpherson asked the political science community a question: Do we need a theory of the state? Macpherson was a social […]

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