Federalism as Scale Discipline: One Constitutional Body, Real Nested Systems, and the Person Carried Across Scale

This artifact develops a civic foundation account of Federalism as constitutional scale discipline. The artifact argues that Federalism is not primarily the fight over which government wins. Federalism is the discipline by which one constitutional body remains one without becoming flat, real nested public systems remain real without becoming separate constitutional worlds, and the person remains carried across scale as a full member of the whole. The artifact reads familiar Federalism surfaces — incorporation, anti-commandeering, preemption, state sovereignty, national supremacy, local control, civil-rights enforcement, states’ rights, national power, and intergovernmental relations — as different places where…