What Can the Federal Government Do Better than the States? [No. 86]

We tend to think of “federalism” as being all about what the states can do better than a national government. What about things that the federal government can do better than the states? Professor John McGinnis discusses some examples of enumerated powers of the federal government, and why it makes the most sense for these issues to be handled at a national level.

Professor John O. McGinnis is the George C. Dix Professor in Constitutional Law at Northwestern University School of Law.

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