Daryl Hunt
Your Worst Nightmare
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- #21
Well, I dont understand what you say about the States taking the powers back. Can you give some examples?Every big government tends to adopt an authoritarian style of rule. What the US needs is more sovereignty of the States.
We just went through a period where the Feds overstepped it's boundaries. The States took it's powers back. Our Federal Republic may be scary and slow but it ends up working.
I think that the problem is more fundamental and cant be solved without the US Constitution being amended. In particular, I think that the 14th amendment prevents the States to be really sovereign in their internal matters.
I won't give any recent examples as it's just too big a can of worms at this time. Maybe in a year.
You can use the 14th for that purpose until you note that it's all about "Due Process". And the State MUST establish "Due Process" on any law it writes and any law it supports. Meaning, that law must be for ALL and those exceptions must be applied to ALL equally inside it's Provinces or State Borders.
Amendment XIV
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.