Comment by cuteboy19
4 years ago
i can understand not wanting power to be centralized in the hands of a faraway federal govt. but i dont understand the fetish of states rights. why not city rights or county rights. or heaven forbid maybe even individual rights
It's a balancing act between individual rights and ability of the society to govern itself without disintegrating (at which point nobody would have any rights).
But, yes, states are just as artificial as US as a whole. Municipalities feel like they're the lowest level organization that is actually somewhat organic and interconnected.
Individual rights are far more likely to be recognized at a Federal level than at the State level. The whole "states rights" non-sense is about the ability to restrict what or how other folks live.
Do you have any basis for this assertion? I find that my state constitution is far better than the federal one in most regards.
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