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To: ProgressingAmerica

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.


11 posted on 05/03/2020 5:00:31 PM PDT by edwinland
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To: edwinland

Thanks.

I think restoring the respect our State Constitutions deserve will go a long way to restoring our republic.


17 posted on 05/03/2020 6:24:15 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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