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Foreword: The Myth and Reality of Federalism
Black, Charles
Black, Charles
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Abstract
In May 1977, I attended, at Ditchley Park near Oxford, a conference aimed at bringing out whatever contribution our own experience with federalism might have to make to a wise solution of the British problem of "devolution" - a word that is currently a term of art referring to the possible creation of semi-autonomous assemblies or parliaments for Scotland and Wales. The challenge of correctly and helpfully describing our own federalism to able British civil servants and politicians stimulated me to what were (to me) new, or at least more accurate insights into our system.