[don asmussen]

Article VI is the proof of my claims.

Read it, then try to refute what it says about State constitutions & laws "to the Contrary, notwithstanding"..

Citations of opinions do not trump the clear words of Article VI..

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Tarkin:
Of course they don't. Nobody claims to trump the clear words of Article VI.

--The states don't need to follow the rules which don't apply to them, just as you don't need to follow the rules which don't apply to you.


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Conservative Goddess;

And under your ridiculous reading of the clause.....states would cease to exist.
In your view, what, if any, power do the states retain?


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I view both our duty to "follow the rules" and the state/fed power issue much as does Ezra Taft Benson in his great essay:

The Proper Role of Government
Address:http://www.usiap.org/Legacy/Addresses/ProperRoleOfGovt.html


You two really do need to read it.

-- Get back to me if you can understand his POV. -- Or feel free to critique it if you can't.

[Dead Corpse]

6. That the national legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation, and more-over to legislate in all cases to which the seperate states are incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation; to negative all laws passed by the several states, contravening, in the opinion of the legislature of the United States, the articles of the union, or any treaties subsisting under the authority of the Union.
-Luther Martin. 1788.