Rethinking the American Union - David Gordon - Mises Daily

A must read for those that consider the brilliance of original American Federalism....

Hume's ideas, along with similar views by other writers, influenced the founders of the American republic; and here we arrive at the second of the two major contentions of this book. It is that America was founded not as a centralized Leviathan but as a federation of republics, each of which retains intact its sovereign power, except on matters delegated to the national government.

Rethinking the American Union - David Gordon - Mises Daily