ABSTRACT
In the unfashionable discussion of federalism in the last chapter of his Essay on Liberty and also in chapter 15 of Representative Government, Mill asserted the view that the appropriate role of the national govern ment generally should involve education, not coercion:
The value of such publicity may be particularly great when directed at small-scale units of provision and their prospective members’ as noted by Dennis Mueller:
A not dissimilar view is expressed in the conclusion of John Gyford’s Citizens, Consumers and Councils (1991) where, after describing pro grams for the orientation of British school governors and Scottish com munity councillors, he urges
The creation on a large scale of residential community associations in the United States came about as a result of this sort of activity:
Similarly, the Federal Housing Administration in 1961 distributed model condominium legislation, variants of which had been adopted in all 50 states by 1967, even though previously condominiums had been familiar only in Puerto Rico.5 The Department of Commerce in the 1920s used a similar method to propagate zoning ordinances; its publication including model ordinances sold tens of thousands of copies.6 The cre ation by state governments of thousands of soil-conservation districts with coercive powers in the 1930s was also ascribable to the distribution of model state legislation by the Roosevelt administration.7
