What is federalism and why is it needed?

Professor Steven Calabresi discusses how the US Constitution not only establishes a separation of powers within the national government, but also allows the individual states to retain significant powers of their own. Neither the federal government nor the state government can fully attain complete power over the citizens because they balance one another.

Professor Steven G. Calabresi is the Clayton J. & Henry R. Barber Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. He is Chairman of the Federalist Society's Board of Directors.

As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker.

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