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    The federal center must hold sufficient powers to ensure ... — Carmelics
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    The federal center must hold sufficient powers to ensure the full benefits of union.

    Democracy & GovernanceSocial Contract
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    • 1.Benefits of union include facilitated commerce across member units.
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    • 2.Frontier duties between member units obstruct commerce.
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    • 3.The federal center must have powers to prevent such frontier duties.
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    • 1.Proudhon's mutualist federalism holds that genuine union benefits emerge from voluntary contractual agreements between units, not centralized coercion.
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    • 2.Powers granted to a center to 'ensure' benefits create institutional incentives to expand beyond commerce into domains that undermine the autonomy generating union's value.
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    • 1.Althusius demonstrated that subsidiary associations, not a sovereign center, are the historically primary locus of political authority in federated arrangements.
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    • 2.The logical structure of the supporting argument conflates a necessary condition for one benefit of union with sufficient justification for a general grant of central power.
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    John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), in chapter 17 of Considerations on Representative Government (1861), recommended federations among “portions of mankind” not disposed to live under a common government, to prevent wars among themselves and protect against aggression. He would also allow the center sufficient powers so as to ensure all benefits of union—including powers to prevent frontier duties to facilitate commerce. He listed three necessary conditions for a federation: sufficient mutual sympathy
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