We explore the consequences for social welfare and the national political conflict of several key institutional features of federalism in the United States: supermajoritarian national institutions and permeable boundaries in the provision of by national and state governments, where the actions by the former can crowd out the latter. States with high demand for public good provision are better p...

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426 I. A Very Brief Overview of Judicial Federalism in the Context of Criminal Process.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 II. Retroactivity Doctrine as Applied to Federal Constitutional New Rules.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...