Title: Federalist thinking /
Authors: Levi, Lucio.; Casalegno, Lionello.
Publisher: University Press of America,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Federal government History.; Political science History
Abstract: "Federalist Thinking is a concise and comprehensive account of the development of federalism from its starting point in history to present. The study points out unobserved relationships among classical thinkers belonging to distant, and generally unrelated, cultural areas, which include political and constitutional thinking (from The Federalist Papers to Wheare), international relations, philosophy (Kant), law, economics (Robbins and Einaudi), and history (Seeley and Fiske). It also explores the federalist aspect of different political tendencies like liberalism, democracy, socialism, communism and the recent trend of federalism to become an independent political behavior, represented by towering personalities, like Spinelli and Einstein, who were among the founders of the European and world federalist movements."--Jacket.
Contents: The Federalist and the Constitution of the United States -- Kant, world federation, perpetual peace, and human emancipation -- The Federalist component of the French Revolution -- Federalism and the criticism of the limits of the national state in the 1800s -- The First World War, the crisis of the national state, and the problem of European unity -- English constitutional federalism and the crisis of the European system of states between the World wars -- The rise of the theoretical autonomy of federalism after the Second World War.