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To: MamaTexan

The effect of fifty states going their own way would be not liberty but insecurity and chaos.


63 posted on 04/02/2012 4:39:33 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Rockingham

Insecurity an chaos will yield a coming together into groups of like minded states. The new unions will be free of the trash in the north east and coastal west.

The population will migrate to comfort.

The cities will fall apart and die. Being obsolete, that doesn’t matter.

Robert Heinlein saw it all and described it well in his later books.


64 posted on 04/02/2012 4:46:30 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: Rockingham
The effect of fifty states going their own way would be not liberty but insecurity and chaos.

LOL!

What do you think we have NOW?

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Original Intent is about a confederation of States NOT a consolidation of one.

That's not only something the Founders warned about, but the generation that followed knew it as well.

"The federal government, then, appears to be the organ through which the united republics communicate with foreign nations, and with each other. Their submission to its operation is voluntary: its councils, its sovereignty is an emanation from theirs, not a flame by which they have been consumed, nor a vortex in which they are swallowed up. Each is still a perfect state, still sovereign, still independent, and still capable, should the occasion require, to resume the exercise of its functions, as such, in the most unlimited extent.
St. George Tucker View of the Constitution of the United States – 1803 [paragraph 337]

Do you seriously think they 'secured the blessing of Liberty to themselves and their posterity' by giving the federal government the authority to sit in absolute judgment over the States?

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BTW, it would be nice if you would point out exactly where in the Constitution OR in the Judiciary Act of 1789 the USSC was given the jurisdiction to sit in judgment of a single State and one of its own citizens.

THAT concept is negated by the 10thAmendment. If the Supreme Courts of the States don't have supreme authority IN the State, they're really not 'supreme', are they?

65 posted on 04/02/2012 7:30:59 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a ~Person~ as created by the Law of Nature, not a 'person' as created by the laws of Man)
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