Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment : the irony of constitutional democracy / Ralph A. Rossum.

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The Supreme Court, judicial activism, and the protection of federalism -- Constitutional structure, federalism, and the securing of liberty -- How the framers protected federalism -- The Senate's protection of federalism in the First Congress -- Marshall's understanding of the original federal design -- Altering the original federal design : the adoption and ratification of the seventeenth amendment -- The Supreme Court's attempts to protect the original federal design.

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Abraham Lincoln worried that the 'walls' of the constitution would ultimately be leveled by the 'silent artillery of time.' His fears materialized with the 1913 ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment, which, by eliminating federalism's structural protection, altered the very nature and meaning of federalism. Ralph A. Rossum's provocative new book considers the forces unleashed by an amendment to install the direct election of U.S. Senators. Far from expecting federalism to be protected by an activist court, the Framers, Rossum argues, expected the constitutional structure, particularly the.

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