Cover -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE -- 1. WHY STATES? -- 2. THE DESIGN OF FEDERALISM -- The Constitutional Convention -- The Bill of Rights -- A Fundamental Principle -- 3. FEDERALISM AND THE EARLY REPUBLIC -- Federalism's First Tests -- The Growing Party Divide -- The Marshall Court -- 4. A NATION DIVIDED -- The Nullification Crisis -- Slavery and Civil War -- Do States Have Rights? -- The New Nationalism -- 5. THE ASSAULT OF LIBERALISM -- The Birth of the Administrative State -- The Problem of "Incorporation" -- New Deal Centralization -- Great Society Liberalism and Its Critics -- 6. THE CHALLENGE OF FEDERALISM -- Government By Judiciary -- The Rights Revolution -- Self-Government and Civic Virtue -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.