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Immensely more powerful than at any of those points you have written. Today at a push of a button it can eliminate most of the world as we know it. Remember, it
by nec4b 8y ago
Immensely more powerful than at any of those points you have written. Today at a push of a button it can eliminate most of the world as we know it. Remember, it had to fight civil war to prevent people owning other people.
- jakelazaroff 8y agoThe parent is referring to legal power, not military power.
- nec4b 8y agoLegal power without means to enforce it is meaningless, hence the civil war when the government was weaker in the past.
- jakelazaroff 8y agoIt's still an orthogonal question. We can rephrase more specifically: "is the legal purview the federal government over residents of the United States at its greatest extent since the founding of the country?"
- nec4b 8y agoThe answer is unambiguous yes. There has never been more laws, more agencies, more regulation, more government employees and so on.
- jakelazaroff 8y agoIf you're only counting number, sure. But there's not a single regulation we have now that impacts lives more than the ones we used to have that said other people could literally own you.