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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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 Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
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| states should be allowed to make laws that allow their citizenry to do as the majority sees fit. |
I entirely agree--on issues that are under state control, marriage for example. I would also argue that legal drinking age should be under local control and that the system of blackmailing states to comply with a national standard is over-reaching by the federal government.
But there are other issues, issues properly under federal control, that cannot be allowed to be nullified by the state governments--that would be tyranny of the minority. Minority? Yes, because we are one people when we speak through Congress. The Senators and Representatives of all 300 million have spoken for the majority of all the citizens. State governments represent only the citizens in their locality...a minority of all citizens.
When any issue comes before Congress the first question should always be: Is this a State or a National issue and who properly has jurisdiction? I'm all for vigorous state governments and the division of power between the States and the National Government.
The crux of the States Rights view is that we are a collection of States and not One People. That disagreement was settled at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Shiloh and Antietam. You have every right to say the national government has become overweening and enfringes on states' constitutional authority to deal with local matters, but to claim that state governments have the right to supercede federal law is to spit on the graves of our ancestors. As Webster pointed out, there are mechanisms in the Constitution to deal with mistakes. |
Yes. That's covered under the 14th Amendment.
We're talkin' 'bout the Commerce Clause, foo' |
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W.T.Carl
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Palin drop? Try Biden drop. |
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