To appreciate the role of federalism in our constitutional system, you should familiarize yourself with the web sites of state and local governments. As an exercise, find the web site for your home state, your hometown, or the city in which you now reside. Every major airport maintains a web site. Find the web site for the airport nearest your college. How useful or informative are these sites?

Do you want to know what is going on in the intergovernmental relations arena?

• One of the most widely read periodicals among state and local officials is Governing magazine (www.governing.com), published by Congressional Quarterly, Inc. The magazine also maintains a list of useful links related to state and local government concerns at www.governing.com/govlinks/glinks.htm.
  
  
• The Urban Institute (http://newfederalism.urban.org/), a well-respected Washington think tank, has been monitoring changes in federal social and health policies that involve states and localities.

A number of papers exploring the nature and future of federalism in the United States, Canada, and Mexico can be found at www.morthamericaninstitute.org/proceedings/fed96/fedcon.html.

Some people advocate the application of the federalist model to international relations. See the web site of the World Federalist Association at www.wfa.org/.