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To: dave rose who wrote (5167)	5/12/2002 9:47:32 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 13056

Under the Constitution as it was written and intended, the states are the soverign entities. The federal government was intended only as a sort of United Nations to deal with issues which affected more than one state -- interstate commerce, national defense, etc. But any intra-state functions -- in-state trade, education, criminal laws and the courts to enforce them, state militas, etc. -- were the functions of the state. Thus, the federal government as designed was just the government of the state governments. Not the primary provider of services to the people. That was the role of the soverign states.