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I get the general point, but as far as I know that purist interpenetration is not actually applied in courts or used in legislatures, other than in a very gener

I get the general point, but as far as I know that purist interpenetration is not actually applied in courts or used in legislatures, other than in a very general sense. I'd love it if someone could inform us about what the laws really are (not the 10th Amendment, but the body of Congressional and state laws) and how they are applied by courts. > Self-determination of peoples People in Newark have self-determination in Washington; they elected those government officials too.

umanwizard 9y ago
> as far as I know that purist interpenetration is not actually applied in courts Well, you're right about that. In practice New Jersey can be forced to commit to go further than what they've agreed to. That doesn't make it right. > People in Newark have self-determination in Washington; they elected those government officials too. This is a bit of a distortion of the concept. If the UN started telling your country whether it could legalize gambling or not (totally unjustified by anything in the UN charter) and had a military to back this up, would you still feel like you had "self-determination" because you get one vote in the General Assembly?
- forapurpose 9y ago
  > If the UN ... I don't see how the UN is anything like the U.S. government, in terms of the self-determination of people in NJ. (And of course the UN and U.S. government are unalike in many other ways too, beginning with the fact that one is a sovereign, democratically legitimate government and the other is a multilateral international organization. The UN is more like ISO than it is like the U.S. government.)