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No state Constitution oversteps The Constitution of the United States .... but I have not done a compare/contrast study.
Kind of a stupid question.
THE political and national issue today is the 80+% unconstitutional federal government, NOT the states. The states need to exercise their constitutional sovereignty but instead have become addicted to dependence on federal funding, exactly what the the tyranny of the Left wants.
The mostly unconstitutional and illegal FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is the greatest threat to America and her freedoms and way of life.
It is the U.S. Constitution that is the central political and legal issue of the day.
Just the U.S. Constitution.
The Federal Government was given supremacy but that was extremely limited by the 10th Amendment. If it wasn’t expressly given to the Federal Government, it was reserved to the states.
It is basically ignored now as is the 2nd, and parts of the 1st.
Just 2. Your State and the Federal Constitution.
The States are sovereign. In theory (before the overreach by the Federal government) in order to know your scope of action as a citizen or a governor, you would need to know primarily your own Constitution.
In theory the Federal Constitution would only impact certain things like ensuring that your State has a republican form of government or telling you how they are going to regulate interstate commerce.
Later, with the 14th Amendment they added the ability to prohibit States from having slavery or indentured servitude and that was then that was expanded into just about everything else.
Your point is a good one. One of the current errors even among conservatives is to assume that all State constitutions are the same and they are all the same as the Federal Constitution which is false.
By the way if you like these issues you would love this article:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20092180?seq=1
I’m pretty sure you can read it by creating a free account at jstor.
Some provisions in state constitutions contradict the U.S. Constitution.
I only swore to uphold the US Constitution.
I was never ‘unsworn’.
When state constitutions were drafted, they were very careful to adhere to the US constitution of that time, the exception being Texas.
https://dlc.dcccd.edu/txgov1-2/two-constitutions-a-comparison
Likewise, Louisiana was organized under the French Civil Code for the law, so many of their organizational terms are different, but as the years go by they are more in conformity with the US Common Law.
Hawaii became a state without any native treaties, which is why there are no native reservations there. However, Indian reservations operate under US, some state and tribal law, the last of which is very long overdue for revision by both the US government and the tribes, as many of those treaties are irrational.
Seems to me there ought to be concerns over states violation of the Constitution’s privileges and immunities clauses.