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Politics : Prime Minister Jean Chretien
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To: Graystone who wrote (293)12/8/2002 1:57:20 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 443
 
Canadians are in the truest sense of the word, provincial.
Americans would have understood that at one time. It seems to me you are simply maybe 50 years behind us in this regard. Prior to the American Civil War, states WERE government. Washington was a distant, little considered place that might get you into a war, but that was about it. Its powers were strictly circumscribed in the Constitution.

The Union victory in the Civil War was a victory for federalism over States Rights. The federal gov't steadily expanded its reach and power following the Civil War.

State's Rights wasn't really dead, though, until the Civil Rights struggle. State's Rights was the battle flag of the old Confederacy. When Washington once again defeated the states, it had undisputed command of the field. And the federal gov't could do as it wished.

It appears you have not reached that point. I'd advise you not to wish for it.
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