Federal Constitutional Design II: Associational Government and Reciprocity

Abstract

AbstractThis chapter addresses the principles of associational rule and reciprocity, the key characteristics of union within a federal constitution. It also explores how the broader orientation of federalism, as a balancing of the goals of pluralism and union, shows these two dimensions to be, far from antonyms, essential halves of one whole; and that these two principles together with those of recognition and autonomy interact symbiotically in support of the overall purpose of a federal constitution: the foundational recognition and accommodation of the state’s constituent territorial pluralism.