"Your circumlocution aside. Its obvious you are not intellectualizing what you are reading. Simply stated, if states had the power to decide things like gay marriage or slavery for example, it would not be a good thing. There needs to be a federal dictate to protect the civil rights of all people or nutcases will do things like bringing back slavery using the Corwin Amendment."
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circumlocution
the use of many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive
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The tactics above can be accurately accounted for and understood as character assassination, which is against the concept of rule of law, or voluntary agreement to refrain from such things as character assassination.
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"Your circumlocution aside."
The tactic there is called the Man of Straw argument. The idea is to target the individual who is then attacked by those words, as those words create a fictional version of the target. The fictional version of the target is said to be made up of straw because the fictional version is made up of fictional weakness, weak character traits, which are then easy to tear apart, as if the target is made of weak straw. The character assassin changes the subject from the subject matter, and turns the subject into a false version of the targets character, and the false version of the targets character is imagined to be weak of character, which sets up thereby an easy to destroy weak character.
"Your circumlocution aside."
If in fact the author of the words above had set aside something then those words quoted above would not appear in print, published in fact, demonstrated as fact as those words are cut and pasted from the original author of those words. Those words are stated as if that subjective opinion is a factual statement, as if the Man of Straw created by the author of those words actually existed, yet no such individual guilty of "deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive" exists. In fact the target of the character assassination - me - now demonstrates the opposite of the false claim against me, as I deliberately attempt to focus attention accurately instead of vague or evasive goals.
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"Its obvious you are not intellectualizing what you are reading."
Again there is a claim concerning what someone is doing, which redirects away from the actual topic, and the direction of focus is turned to the target of character assassination, instead of the actual subject matter of the topic. My actual words remain to be published in their original form whereby my actual words stand as precisely what they are, without the need to twist, redefine, subjectively opinionate upon them, "intellectualize" them, in any way foreign, or false, as to the actual words written, and published from me to the members of this forum.
Now onto the topic:
"Simply stated, if states had the power to decide things...." SNIP
There are at least 50 States now, which are more than the 13 States that were formed at the time the original Federation was formed. At that time there was a battle fought in the effort to define the meaning of these legal fictions, these States, and these competitive ideas knowable as Confederation, Federation, Country, Nation, Voluntary Mutual Defense Association, or Dictatorship, Tyranny, Monarchy, and Consolidated Government.
There were then, as there remains to be now, at least 2 major sides in the battle over POWER of government.
1. Those agreeing that trial by jury was the palladium of Liberty, the law of the land, and the due process due everyone without exception.
2. Those agreeing that only those members in their exclusive club can be allowed to command the power to decide any matter, anywhere, anytime.
When someone resorts to libel, or character assassination, on a public access forum, despite the well published rules governing the forum members, that individual shows their true colors as to which side they are on in fact.
What I can offer, returning to the subject matter, is now two links and two quotes, where the people offering the information are decidedly on the side of voluntary mutual defense of the innocent rather than the other, dictatorial, side.
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Reclaiming the American Revolution The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and Their Legacy William Watkins 9781403963031 Amazon.com Books
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Second, federalism permits the states to operate as laboratories of democracy-to experiment with various policies and Programs. For example, if Tennessee wanted to provide a state-run health system for its citizens, the other 49 states could observe the effects of this venture on Tennessee's economy, the quality of care provided, and the overall cost of health care. If the plan proved to be efficacious other states might choose to emulate it, or adopt a plan taking into account any problems surfacing in Tennessee. If the plan proved to be a disastrous intervention, the other 49 could decide to leave the provision of medical care to the private sector. With national plans and programs, the national officials simply roll the dice for all 284 million people of the United States and hope they get things right.
Experimentation in policymaking also encourages a healthy competition among units of government and allows the people to vote with their feet should they find a law of policy detrimental to their interests. Using again the state-run health system as an example, if a citizen of Tennessee was unhappy with Tennessee's meddling with the provisions of health care, the citizen could move to a neighboring state. Reallocation to a state like North Carolina, with a similar culture and climate, would not be a dramatic shift and would be a viable option. Moreover, if enough citizens exercised this option, Tennessee would be pressured to abandon its foray into socialized medicine, or else lose much of its tax base. To escape a national health system, a citizen would have to emigrate to a foreign country, an option far less appealing and less likely to be exercised than moving to a neighboring state. Without competition from other units of government, the national government would have much less incentive than Tennessee would to modify the objectionable policy. Clearly, the absence of experimentation and competition hampers the creation of effective programs and makes the modification of failed national programs less likely.
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There is much more to the educational material in the source of the above explanation of the stark differences between a voluntary mutual defense association, or federation, and a dictatorship whereby one single POWER issued any order, no matter how criminal, and everyone is expected to obey without question.
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Anti-Federalist Papers
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And in order to give the federal courts jurisdiction of an action, between citizens of the same state, in common acceptation - may not a court allow the plaintiff to say, he is a citizen of one state, and the defendant a citizen of another without carrying legal fictions so far, by any means, as they have been carried by the courts of King's Bench and Exchequer, in order to bring causes within their cognizance? Further, the federal city and districts, will be totally distinct from any state, and a citizen of a state will not of course be subject of any of them.
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In order to "get it" an individual may peruse the entire message, rather than the sound bite quoted.
