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States as Laboratories
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Federalism lets individual states test policies, so successful experiments can spread and failures stay contained.
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Justice Brandeis's 1932 dissent gave the picture its name: a single state may serve as a laboratory.
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The laboratory works both directions — states can pioneer protections or races to the bottom.