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opportunity for testing this comparatively new principle in 

 the relations between the two branches of our federal form 

 of government. 



In one of his recent books, Professor Laski in the course 

 of a rather severe criticism of our governmental practices 

 says: 



No kind of working compromise has been reached betsveen the 

 States on the one hand, and the Federal Government on the other. 

 Each has gone its way often almost wilfully, duplicating the work 

 of the other. . . . The possibiHty of cooperation is not considered. 

 The lines of demarcation are never made plain.^s 



Had Professor Laski been aware of the progress already 

 made in the directions he indicates, it is probably that his 

 criticism might have been turned to commendation. 



28 H. J. Laski, The Problems of Sovereignty, March, 1917. 



