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Section 2 . 6
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Translating Federalism, v3

Lawrence Lessig

These three cases demonstrate yet another effort at crafting limits on federal power. Rehnquist had predicted in Garcia that the federalists would be back; here they are, back in Lopez. Morrison further tunes this newly crafted limit on federal power. But Raich seems to mark yet another retreat — as evinced both by the author (Stevens) and the dissent by O'Connor. -LL

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