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Politics : 2000:The Make-or-Break Election -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Father Terrence who wrote (328)	7/17/2000 3:39:48 PM
From: Scarecrow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1013

In actuality, our political problem stems from the fact that both major political parties are "federalists" You couldn't be more incorrect. Federalism (despite its paradoxical name) is rooted in strong adherence -- devotion, even -- to the 10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Neither party today follows that principle, thus it is erroneous to say today's Republicans or Democrats are federalists -- they are the exact opposite of federalists. Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Papers promote a vision of highly limited federal government. Now, you may be correct about a blurring of distinctions between political parties since the Civil War (which, in fact, was really a war over federalism with The South seeking to retain states' rights), but Hamilton did not betray the American Revolution by promoting the notion of a powerful federal government.