Decentralized power enables greater policy experimentation. The monolithic federal bureaucracy of the United States makes these types of experiments less likely than they would otherwise be if the federal government had less power relative to the states. Laboratories of Democracy
Justice Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court, 1932, New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann To stay experimentation in things social and economic is a grave responsibility. Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation. It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its […]
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