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Benjamin Franklin. Join or Die. Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia), May 9, 1754 Newspaper Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress.

Ben Shahn (1898-1969) Our Friend. New York: National Citizens Political Action Committee, 1944. Lithographic poster. Prints & Photographs Division (62.5). Library of Congress.

African-American students arriving at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, in U.S. Army car, 1957.

Federalism

• Katz, Ellis. American Federalism, Past, Present and Future, Issues of Democracy, USIA Electronic Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, April 1997
• Before Federalism
  • Albany Plan of Union (1754)
  • Dominion of New England 1686
  • Articles of Confederation (Agreed to by Congress 15 November 1777 In force after ratification by Maryland, 1 March 1781)
• Fifth Amendment (Rights of Persons), Find Law
  • Overview and Public Use
  • Just Compensation
  • When Property is Taken
• Tenth Amendment (Reserved Powers), Find Law
• Fourteenth Amendment (Rights Guaranteed, Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection), Find Law.
• The Governance Sector: Devolving Authority and Democratizing Decisionmaking, The New Rules Project, Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR)
• Devolution, Wikipedia
• Devolution and Preemption, The Governance Sector, The New Rules Project

Extra

• History of U.S. Federalism, University of South Carolina
• Shannon, John. Middle-Class Votes Bring a New Balance to U.S. Federalism. "The Future of the Public Sector," Number 10, The Urban Institute, February 01, 1997.
• State-Federal Relations Overview, National Conference of State Legislatures
• Is the Federal-State-Local Partnership Being Dismantled?, National League of Cities. [Download as PDF file.]
• The Impact of Fiscal Policy on State and Local Fiscal Crises: Roundtable Proceedings, , National League of Cities. [Download as PDF file.]

State and Town

• Richardson, Jesse J., Meghan Zimmerman Gough and Robert Puentes. Jr. Is Home Rule The Answer? Clarifying The Influence of Dillon's Rule on Growth Management. The Brookings Institution. January 2003.
• Barron, David J., Gerald E. Frug and Rick T. Su. Dispelling the Myth of Home Rule Local Power in Greater Boston [PDF file], Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Geon, Gyusuck and Geoffrey K. Turnbull, The Effect of Home Rule on Local Government Behavior: Is there no Rule Like Home Rule? [PDF file]. Working Paper No. 04-05, Urban and Regional Analysis Group, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, September 2004.
• Nolon, John. Accommodating Home Rule in State Land Use Reform. Land Use Law Center, Pace Law School.