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Show CHAPTER VII FEDERALISM Thomas has referred on numerous in American constitutional government and IiAmerica's contribution to occasions to the as by America's the world's political thought. organization for peaceful living, and the protection sees his nworking with Thomas has said, in II or operating the thought I an answer same expression His to analysis 01 this Making in the the of local and "pertnershlp, cooperation amplification Government, that 1 an the word of American at sees 1 theory it work solu- a problems produced and and regional self-government theory is worthy of In it he introduces another word that is part of the pol lrlcel philosophy, the idea of in it of the individual. siderable consideration. to He 11 conflicting loyalties, separate political entities, sectional differences; he of Federalism lithe genius of American govemmentl! is America's contribution to the ort of government. tion to world principle we time, each il another way of con- key expressing 0 of his claim that Federal ism is the genius have 49 distinct and separate sovereignties one being a democracy. Elaborating, he pointed III take it that the greatest contribution America has made to political to political theory, and to the art of government is its Federal system 0 Since the establishment of this government I prcc tically every suggestion of an international organization for the betterment of the world has embodied some notion of federalism. II Congressional Record, Vol. 95, May 2, 1949). 134 p , 5419, (81st Congress, 1st Sass. |
