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Friday, December 15, 2006


Is Football a Metaphor for Governance?
From a fundraising letter I've seen: American football "with its incessant meetings on the field, its time outs, and its perpetual governing from the sidelines is perhaps good preparation for a life of government interference in everything you do."

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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