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Blogs Liberty and Power FAIR WEATHER FEDERALISM?

Dec 27, 2003

FAIR WEATHER FEDERALISM?

by Liberty and Power

Richard Garnett of Notre Dame Law School has a good article over at National Review Online responding to some recent high-profile charges that conservatives are"fair-weather federalists" when it comes to supporting federal action on abortion and marriage. His article echoes many of the points I made in an earlier L&P post.