The Rise and Fall of the Gold Standard in the United States
There is, in informal discussions and even in some academic writings, a tendency to treat U.S. monetary history as divided between a gold...
Historically, federalism acted as a safeguard of American freedoms. Under the Constitution, the federal government was assigned specific limited powers and most government functions were left to the states. Unfortunately, policymakers and courts have mainly discarded federalism in recent decades.
