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• The Federalist: A Classic on Federalism and Free Government (originally published 1960; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Gottfried Dietze (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated (Richmond: Shepherd and Pollard, 1820), by John Taylor (multiple formats at Google)
• The Federal Government: Its Nature and Character; Being a Review of Judge Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (New York: Van Evrie, Horton and Co., 1868), by A. P. Upshur, ed. by C. Chauncey Burr (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A National Constitution: The Only Road to National Peace, by William Giles Dix (page images at MOA)
• About America: How the United States is Governed (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, c2004), by Paul A. Arnold (PDF at state.gov)

• State Documents on Federal Relations: The States and the United States (6 volumes; Philadelphia: Dept. of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1900-1906), ed. by Herman Vandenburg Ames (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Domestic Priorities: An Economic Appraisal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), ed. by John M. Quigley and Daniel L. Rubinfeld (HTML at UC Press)
• An Introduction to State and Local Public Finance (c2000), by Thomas A. Garrett and John C. Leatherman (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)

• A Guide for State and Local Government Agencies: Cost Principles and Procedures for Establishing Cost Allocation Plans and Indirect Cost Rates for Grants and Contracts with the Federal Government (Washington: GPO, 1977), by United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Applications of R&D in the Civil Sector: The Opportunity Provided by the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977 (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (current electronic edition), by United States General Services Administration (searchable HTML at cfda.gov)

• Community Development Block Grant Program: Guide to National Objectives and Eligible Activities for Entitlement Communities (updated edition, 1998), by United States Office of Community Planning and Development (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New Fiscal Federalism and the Social Safety Net: A View from California, ed. by James R. Hosek and Robert A. Levine (HTML at rand.org)

• Metropolitan Area Problems: The Role of the Federal Government (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School, 1961), by Theodore M. Hutchison (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Davidian Massacre: Disturbing Questions About Waco Which Must Be Answered, by Carol Moore (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Federal Raid on Ruby Ridge, ID: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session (Washington: GPO, 1997), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Sovereign States: Notes of a Citizen of Virginia (c1957), by James Jackson Kilpatrick (HTML with commentary at sovereignstates.org)
• The Invasion of Mississippi (Belmont, MA: American Opinion, 1963), by Earl Lively (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mid-West Hears the South's Story: An Address (Greenwood, MS: Association of Citizens' Councils, ca. 1958), by William J. Simmons (page images at Preservica)
• Are We a Nation? The Question as it Stood Before the War, by J. M. Bundy (page images at MOA)
• Oration Delivered on the Fifth Anniversary of the South Carolina Historical Society, at Hibernian Hall, in Charleston, on Wednesday Evening, May 23, 1860 (Charleston, SC: Walker, Evans and co., 1860), by Thomas M. Hanckel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the State Rights and Free Trade Convention, Held in Charleston, (S.C.), on the 22d and 25th February, 1832 (Political Tract #7; 1832), by Charleston State Rights and Free Trade Association of South Carolina
  • page images at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The South's Just Cause (third printing; 1961), by Willie Malvin Caskey (page images at Preservica)
• Federal Usurpation (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1908), by Franklin Pierce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Proceedings of the Meeting of Delegates from the Southern Rights Associations of South Carolina, Held at Charleston, May, 1851 (Columbia, SC: Johnston and Cavis, 1851), by Southern Rights Associations of South Carolina (multiple formats at archive.org)
• What is Our Constitution: League, Pact, or Government? Two Lectures on the Constitution of the United States Concluding a Course on the Modern State, Delivered in the Law School of Columbia College, During the Winter of 1860 and 1861; To Which is Appended an Address on Secession Written in the Year 1851 (1861), by Francis Lieber
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mr. Justice Harlan Dissents! A Statement (1961), by Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government and John M. Harlan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Oration Delivered on the Fourth Day of July, 1861, at the Capitol, Austin, Texas (Austin: Printed by J. Marshall and Co., 1861), by Alexander Watkins Terrell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Popular Sovereignty in the Territories: The Democratic Record (Baltimore: Murphy and Co., 1860)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Speech of Hon. George A. Gordon, of Chatham, on the Constitutionality of the Conscription Laws, Passed by the Congress of the Confederate States, by George Anderson Gordon (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone? How Institutional Differences Influence Renewable Energy Policy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Srinivas C. Parinandi (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Official Record of the Proceedings and Debates of the Australasian Federation Conference, Melbourne, 1890 (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)

• Official Record of the Proceedings and Debates of the Australasian Federation Conference, Melbourne, 1890 (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)

• Australian Politics and Policy (multiple editions, including junior and senior editions for 2019 and 2021), ed. by Open Textbook Editorial Group (multiple formats with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• Official Record of the Proceedings and Debates of the Australasian Federation Conference, Melbourne, 1890 (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)

• Official Record of the Proceedings and Debates of the Australasian Federation Conference, Melbourne, 1890 (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)

• Three Civilizations, Two Cultures, One State: Canada's Political Traditions (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, c1986), by Douglas V. Verney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Thirty Million Musketeers: One Canada, for All Canadians (1995), by Gordon Gibson (PDF with commentary at Fraser Institute)

• Putting Federalism in its Place: The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Scott L. Greer, Daniel Béland, André Lecours, and Kenneth Dubin (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Toward a New Central Europe: A Symposium on the Problems of the Danubian Nations, ed. by Francis S. Wagner (HTML at hungarianhistory.com)

• Firstborn of Venice: Vicenza in the Early Renaissance State (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James S. Grubb (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Uniting of Europe: Political, Social, and Economic Forces, 1950-1957 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1958), by Ernst B. Haas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Can Europe Unite? (Headline Series #80; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1950), by Vera Micheles Dean and John Kenneth Galbraith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifteen Into One? The European Union and its Member States (Manchester, UK and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), ed. by Wolfgang Wessels, Andreas Maurer, and Jürgen Mittag (PDF at oapen.org)

• The European Commission, 1973-86: History and Memories of an Institution (in English, French, and German; c2014), ed. by Eric Bussière, Vincent Dujardin, Michel Dumoulin, Piers Ludlow, Jan Willem Brouwer, and Pierre Tilly (multiple formats with commentary at europa.eu)

• Speech of Hon. George A. Gordon, of Chatham, on the Constitutionality of the Conscription Laws, Passed by the Congress of the Confederate States, by George Anderson Gordon (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• American Government (Houston: OpenStax, c2016), by Glen S. Krutz, ed. by Sylvie Waskiewicz (PDF with commentary at openstax.org)
• Objections to Conservatism (Heritage Lectures #3; Washington: Heritage Foundation, c1981), contrib. by Russell Kirk, Lewis H. Lapham, Philip M. Crane, Carl Gershman, Ernest Van den Haag, Paul Weyrich, George F. Gilder, Ben J. Wattenberg, Paul Johnson, Shirley Robin Letwin, Lester H. Hunt, Tom G. Palmer, and Aram Bakshian (PDF at amazonaws.com)
• The Study of Politics: The Present State of American Political Science (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1959), by Charles S. Hyneman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Frederick Michael Dolan (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Our Enemy, The State, by Albert Jay Nock (PDF at mises.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.