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Principles of Home rule for the 21st Century

This groundbreaking new framework lays out a vision for rebalancing state and local relations, and provides model constitutional language to encourage legal reform.

Messaging Guide

This guide provides topline messages, best examples, and language do’s and don’ts to keep in mind when talking about preemption.

The Growing Shadow of state interference

Between January and June 2019, state legislatures across the nation continued a troubling trend of passing more laws forbidding or “preempting” local control over a large and growing set of public health, economic, environmental, and social justice policy solutions.