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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Wayners who wrote (769276)5/3/2010 12:30:41 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
I agree that a patchwork of 50 different state laws can be confusing if you travel from state to state.

But that's the cost of having strongly established states' rights.

(And, I think that --- although inconvenient at times and although people might disagree with how one or a couple of states handle their own affairs --- that is one of the unique strengths of the American system of government that divides power between the states and the central government. This system allowing strong states' rights has been called the "Laboratory of Democracy" and for good reason I think. It allows states to try out different solutions for problems and --- when a solution works well in one state --- it is often soon emulated in other states.)

This is much more a STRENGTH in America I think, instead of a weakness.

(But with personal use of drugs I think we have over-reached in the direction of far too much power in the hands of the central government that should have been left in the hands of the states where it was before. Back when alcohol was banned on the national level, and when the ban was removed, it took an AMENDMENT to the Constitution to give the national government the authority. But, in this more recent example there WAS NO amendment to the constitution... only an ACTIVIST Supreme Court that ruled that the national government could take the power away from the states. I disagree and I think the court was *wrong* to so expand the "Commerce Clause" in it's reading of the constitution so that the national government can have suzerainty over EVERYTHING. That is where we started down the wrong path toward a massive over-powering central government. If we ever are to have hope of reversing what has come since we must go back and over-turn those wrong-headed court rulings.)
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