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To: C19fan
You cannot get rid of states without abolishing the entire Constitution.

Abolish the Constitution, and you abolish the concept of a President, a Congress, and a Judiciary.

What is left is a tyrant who rules over all.

People just don't seem to understand federalism. There are the people, there are the several state governments, and there is the federal government.

The President is the executive of the federal government, and is therefore supposed to be the arbiter of interstate issues, including a unified foreign policy and a common national defense.

The states were supposed to be the day-to-day government of the people. The people vote for their own state governments, and also vote for their representative to the House of Representatives in the federal Congress.

The states vote for their federal executive, and also for their ambassadors to the Senate in the federal Congress. The states vote for the executive via the Electoral College.

Therefore, the Electoral College is a body of the states, not of the people's "popular" vote. Eliminate the Electoral College, and we might as well eliminate the concept of states altogether. The 17th amendment already gutted the Senate.

Is that how liberals/globalists see the United States in the 21st century, as a stateless land mass with a single overarching government over all?

Just "America?"

To these people, nations are nothing but occupied land. They ignore that a national culture emerged to mobilize a people to improve their lot, defend against encroachers, and educate their young to sustain what their predecessors have built in order to pass it on to their own posterity.

Today, all these people see is a territory of resources to exploit, and an indigenous peope who are in their way. In order to overthrow us, they must first disconnect us from our history by making nationalism a sin.

-PJ

77 posted on 11/16/2016 7:47:03 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Political Junkie Too
You cannot get rid of states without abolishing the entire Constitution.

Yep. There is certainly a mechanism for doing so, in fact, several. Article V lists them.

But that would involve playing by the rules and that's not what this is about. When liberals lose they demand to change the rules, not follow them, just enough so that they always win, because that's "fair", isn't it? What a pity for them that this is government, not Calvinball.

112 posted on 11/16/2016 2:32:57 PM PST by Billthedrill
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