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To: CLRGuy
Actually states can do just about anything they want, even set up a theocracy if they please (because the bill of rights and such apply to the federal government). Citizens in that theocracy, however, would be free to move from one state to another that didn't have such rules.

What if all States that were part of the union set up a theocracy?

15 posted on 07/23/2002 7:48:45 AM PDT by FreeTally
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To: FreeTally
What if all States that were part of the union set up a theocracy?

People who didn't wish to be under that theocracy would migrate to a state with a small population, become the voting majority thereby taking political control of that state's government, and dis-establish the state church.

In short, the People would vote with their feet.

19 posted on 07/23/2002 7:53:14 AM PDT by freeeee
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To: FreeTally
>>What if all States that were part of the union set up a theocracy?<<

States can establish a religion. They cannot set up a theocracy:

Article IV, section 4, "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government..."

All the States could establish the same religion, but Congress could not mandate its acceptance nationwide.

27 posted on 07/23/2002 8:02:01 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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