Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
8-12-2026
Abstract
My remarks today are drawn from my book, Monitoring American Federalism: The History of State Legislative Resistance, and from an essay I wrote this year for the Center for the Study of Federalism about the responsibility of state legislators to sound the alarm when the federal government overreaches its constitutional authority.
Publication Title
National Federalism Summit
Keywords
Federalism, state legislatures, federal/state relationship
Recommended Citation
Christian G. Fritz,
State Legislatures: Guardians of the Federal Balance, Practical Strategies for Monitoring, Strengthening, and Sustaining American Federalism (Remarks),
National Federalism Summit
(2026).
Available at:
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facultyscholarship/982