Translation: We don't call what the "will of the people" is, unless it gives us more power or more money.
Translation: We don't call what the "will of the people" is, unless it gives us more power or more money.
Exactly. This is a chilling sentence: "the state attorney general said the vote was irrelevant because state law will still be enforced."
This is the same logic that the Feds use to stomp all over state laws that they don't like. "Local government" only has as much power of self-determination as the higher authorities allow it to have. Can't let any decisions be made at the local level, after all. What do the people know about what's best for them?