TY - JOUR
T1 - Splitting the atom of property
T2 - Rights experimentalism as obligation to future generations
AU - Colburn, Jamison E.
PY - 2009/9
Y1 - 2009/9
N2 - The Framers split the atom of sovereignty. It was the genius of their idea that our citizens would have two political capacities, one state and one federal, each protected from incursion by the other. The resulting Constitution created a legal system unprecedented in form and design, establishing two orders of government, each with its own direct relationship, its own privity, its own set of mutual rights and obligations to the people who sustain it and are governed by it.
AB - The Framers split the atom of sovereignty. It was the genius of their idea that our citizens would have two political capacities, one state and one federal, each protected from incursion by the other. The resulting Constitution created a legal system unprecedented in form and design, establishing two orders of government, each with its own direct relationship, its own privity, its own set of mutual rights and obligations to the people who sustain it and are governed by it.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70449433291
SN - 0016-8076
VL - 77
SP - 1411
EP - 1477
JO - George Washington Law Review
JF - George Washington Law Review
IS - 5-6
ER -