The Implosion of American FederalismAt a time of unprecedented national power, why do so many Americans believe that our nationhood is fragile and precarious? Why the talk among politicians, academics, and jurists of coups d'etat, of culture wars, of confederation, of constitutional breakdown? In this wide ranging book, Robert Nagel proposes a surprising znswer: that anxiety about national unity is caused by centralization itself. Moreover, he proposes that this anxiety has dangerous