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ix PREFACE This volume of NOMOS—the fifty-fifth in the series—emerged from papers and commentaries given at the annual meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (ASPLP) in Seattle on September 3–4, 2011, held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. Our topic, “Federalism and Subsidiarity,” was selected by the Society ’s membership. The conference consisted of three panels, corresponding to the first three parts of this volume: (1) “Federalism, Positive Benefits , and Negative Liberties”; (2) “Constitutions, Federalism, and Subsidiarity”; and (3) “The Entrenchment of Local and Provincial Autonomy, Integrity, and Participation.” The volume includes revised versions of the principal papers delivered at that conference by Sotirios A. Barber, Steven G. Calabresi and Lucy D. Bickford , and Daniel Weinstock. It also includes essays that developed out of the original commentaries on those papers by Michael Blake, Ernest A. Young, Andreas Føllesdal, Jenna Bednar, Loren King, and Judith Resnik. For the published volume, we invited an additional author for each of the three panels, Ilya Somin, Vicki Jackson, and Jacob Levy. We are grateful to all of these authors for their insightful and timely contributions. Thanks are also due to the editors and production team at New York University Press, and particularly to Ilene Kalish, Alexia Traganas , and Caelyn Cobb. On our own behalf and on behalf of the Society, we wish to express deep gratitude for the Press’s ongoing support for the series and the tradition of interdisciplinary scholarship that it represents. Finally, thanks to Courtney Gesualdi, Robert Hillenbrand, and Christopher Mercurio, Fleming’s excellent research assistants at Boston University; Jennifer Ekblaw and Stefanie Weigmann, his x Preface highly resourceful reference librarians; and Cameron Samuelson , his highly capable administrative assistant, for providing expert assistance during the editorial and production phases of the volume. James E. Fleming Boston, June 2013 Jacob T. Levy Montreal, June 2013 ...