[goldstategop]

The federal government leaves it up to the state legislatures. That's a pretty federalist definition to me.

[lugsoul]

Only if the legislatures do it in the way the Federal government tells them to do it.

[exodus]

To: lugsoul
"The federal government leaves it up to the state legislatures. That's a pretty federalist definition to me."
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To be precise, goldstategop, the Federal government didn't leave anything to the State governments.

The People, in the person of their State Representatives to the Constitutional Convention, did not give to the Federal government the power to interfere in Private matters.