I’m not sure that the Tenth Amendment covers this kind of behavior, but the Guarantee Clause of Article 4 Section 4, which states that the federal government has to “guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government”, I interpret that at least as an obligation to prevent states from instituting a socialistic form of government; but seeing as how the federal government has been itself turned socialist for decades, it is more inclined to influence the states to go socialist as it has been doing.
Thanks for mentioning that Olog-hai. I’ve thought about the republican form of government clause too. But if we made all leftist activists live in one state for example, leftist voters having to choose only from leftists to elect to office, then I do not see how such a state could survive.
Leftists would probably run the state like children playing out their fantasies, play time over after they eat all the cookies.
I’ve wondered about that clause to guarantee a republican form of government.
Does that mean that every state needs to have a governor, state legislature, court system, etc.???
I’ve never really heard anyone say what this means. But you figure every state is patterned after the federal government, in that, there is a chief executive/governor, all states except Nebraska have a bicameral legislature, every state has a system of courts, capped by a state level supreme court, etc.