Archives: Jon Russell / Publications

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  5 months ago

  Balancing State & Local Power

  Our Founding Fathers outlined their vision of how the government should be structured in the Federalist Papers and later enshrined it in the U.S. Constitution, hoping their design allowed each…

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  5 years ago

  The Levers of Power in Local Government

  Though different in each state, municipal government in the United States is extremely important to the understanding of federalism. The genius of the Founders’ federalism was in diffusing…

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  8 years ago

  Federalism, Dillon Rule and Home Rule

  Every local government is governed by their respective states by two legal definitions, The Dillon Rule or Home Rule. Regardless of which legal definition a local government falls under, both…