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Federalism: The Founders’ Design, by Raoul Berger (Oklahoma, 223 pp., $16.95)

Raoul Berger’s Federalism: The Founders’ Design is indispensable reading for those conservatives who have long felt that the national government has unconstitutionally intruded upon the reserved powers of the states but who were not quite sure of their grounds. Indeed, this short work makes the best constitutional case for the states’-rights position we have. Berger performs an invaluable service by directly challenging certain currently accepted constitutional interpretations, particularly those of Edward Corwin, whose premises ineluctably lead to the conclusion that our Founding Fathers bequeathed us a unitary, rather than a federal, system.

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Federalism: The Founders’ Design, by Raoul Berger (Oklahoma, 223 pp., $16.95)

Raoul Berger’s Federalism: The Founders’ Design is indispensable reading for those conservatives who have long felt that the national government has unconstitutionally intruded upon the reserved powers of the states but who were not quite sure of their grounds. Indeed, this short work makes the best constitutional case for the states’-rights position we have. Berger performs an invaluable service by directly challenging certain currently accepted constitutional interpretations, particularly those of Edward Corwin, whose premises ineluctably lead to the conclusion that our Founding Fathers bequeathed us a unitary, rather than a federal, system.