Gunny
Gold Member
elephant said:States have no real rights left. Without the right to secede states essentially have to accept the federal government as the final word on everything. The US is no longer a collection of states that agree to accept the federal government - it is a mass democracy bordering on socialism. The federal government is getting bigger and more authoritative - not smaller. It will not give back rights it has specifically taken from the states and when it gets the chance it will take more away. I just think you are wrong.
I am not assuming any more than the Supreme Court - the made up the right to privacy, then they gave control of this right to the federal government - not the states, and now YOU believe they will just give this made up right to the states? You are naive.
Naive, huh? Not today, anyway.
The law -- the U S Constitution -- delegates the right to make laws not specifically covered in the Constitution. That is FACT.
Amendment X:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
THAT is law.
Please note that I have mentioned twice the reality of the Fed usurping the rights of states to make their own laws. I am not naive, nor wrong because the Fed oversteps its bounds.
Try cracking the lid on that box you've locked yourself into and seeing that I am basically saying the same thing you are concerning the reality of the situation, just a different way.
Where we disagree is that it IS law. Until it is changed, that's how it is.