When an all-consuming Federal Blobocracy does exist, the people shall be obligated to rein it in and return it to its proper and legal functions assigned under the Constitution.
Bump!
reading the commits several things strike me:
1: Corporate person hood is anther states rights issues as corporations are incorporated by states.
2: Insolently so are ALL elections in the United States state issues, there are NO “federal” elections in the united states period. Even the election for president is simply an election for your State’s electors. So any and all campaign rules should be State campaign rules.
3: The dilution by some Washington leftist that if states were to retake their position as masters of domestic policy’s would somehow create either anarchy or “big business” domination is nuts. In fact the centralization of power makes cooperate big money domination easy as they only have to pay off 1 set of senators and reps to reap the rewards from the whole Federation, rather then 50 sets of politicians, to reap the same rewards.
Look at the numbers: http://www.ncsl.org/LegislaturesElections/Redistricting/ConstituentsperStateLegislativeDistrict/tabid/16643/Default.aspx
There are a lot fewer people per state legislator number usually in the 10’s of thousands per legislator then there are per congressman.
At the same time the benefit of buying off any particular legislator is much, much less, as they can only benift you in so far as the state’s laws and thus economy are concerned.
The economic which enables “Big business” to buy undue influence over our leaders just doesn’t work out so well with State legislators as it does with congressmen. The people have a much stronger share of control over them vs the economic value of their power.
If you want to get rid of and fight corruption keeping government limit is the only way. because when it comes to corruption your talking about the economic value(How much the power can be used to economically benefit a particular company.) of power vs the political value of power(the hold of the people).