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Federalism forces a centralization-vs-travel-restriction tradeoff

Because of the US federal structure, the country faces a choice between centralizing power more than is desirable (reducing scope for valuable experimentation) and allowing some restrictions on travel across localities—possibly via identity certificates—as Canada did across provinces.

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Speaker

Glen Weyl

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there is likely going to need to be some capacity for states or localities — probably through some sort of identity certificate or something like that — to potentially limit travel across jurisdictions. In Canada, they’ve done that across provinces.

Source

Glen WeylConversations with Tyler
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:24:00 AM

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