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The Upside-Down Constitution THE UPSIDE-DOW N CONSTITUTION MICHAEL S. GREVE HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2012 Copyright © 2012 by Michael S. Greve All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Greve, Michael S. The upside-down Constitution / Michael S. Greve. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-674-06191-0 (alk. paper) 1. Federal government—United States. 2. Federal government— United States—History. 3. Constitutional history—United States. 4. United States. Supreme Court. I. Title. KF4600.G748 2012 342.73'042—dc23 2011020224 To my parents Contents Introduction 1 part one Foundations 19 1 Constitutionalism 23 2 Federalism 44 3 Constitutional Structure 63 part two Competitive Federalism 87 4 Commerce and Competition 91 5 Corporations 112 6 Federal Common Law 133 7 The Fiscal Constitution 153 part three Transformation 177 8 Constitutional Inversion 181 9 Commerce, Cartels, and Concurrent Powers 201 10 Erie’s Federalism 221 11 Fiscal Federalism 243 part four Our Federalism 259 12 Federalism after the New Deal: Rights, Revenues, and Regulation 265 • Contents viii 13 From Experiments to Exploitation 287 14 The Supreme Court’s Federalism 308 part five The State of Our Federalism 327 15 The Court, the Nation, and the States 333 16 Federalism among the States 355 17 Concluding Essay: Federalism at the Crossroads 380 Appendix: Constitutional Structure: Powers and Limitations 399 Notes 403 Acknowledgments 507 Index 511 The Upside-Down Constitution
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