The Federalist Papers
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The Constitution and The Federalist share the qualities of having been pressed by time in composition, but liberated from time in lasting significance. The paradox gets at the heart of what it means to hold opposing ideas in the mind simultaneously while retaining the ability—here brilliantly—to function.
federalist (with smaller units nested within bigger ones) or polycentric (with smaller units connected laterally across a network).