Caging Leviathan: John Taylor's Federalism and Lockean Liberalism in American Political Theory

• In Event: Liberalism and the American Republic

Brief Overview

This paper examines Taylor’s analysis of Publius’s comments and Supreme Court cases pertaining to American federalism. It explains how Taylor understood federalism to be an essential, not an accidental, part of the political theory of the founding.

Author

• Clifford Humphrey, Hillsdale College