On Old and New Federalism: William Penn, Constant, Adam Smith, and Jacob Levy ,

In an important (2007) paper, “Federalism and the old and new liberalisms," Jacob T. Levy centers on a chapter “On Municipal Power, Local Authorities, and a New Kind of Federalism,” from Benjamin Constant’s Principles of Politics Applicable to All Representative Governments, in his interpretation of American federalism. Levy’s paper — retelling of the s…