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The US could create an amendment to say something like "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are r
by viscanti 5y ago
The US could create an amendment to say something like "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". Which would give individual States the right to control a lot of things. Is that kind of what you're thinking?
- autocorr 5y agoTo anyone who does not get the irony in the above, this already exists as the Tenth Amendment. It is effectively ignored because it is considered legally redundant with the Constitution itself.
- Jcowell 5y agoI disagree if it was effectively ignored, a lot of things would be better and alot of things would be worse. While the lines between state and federal power has even diminished, it’s very much still there.
- cindarin 5y agoI originally assumed you were a dumbass here, not a smartass. well played.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoThe interstate highway system and the freedom of movement between the states greatly restricts the ability for states to have meaningfully different policies from one another. A popular policy that works for the current population of the state may become an economic disaster once residents of other states move in to join the action.
- dantheman 5y agoThat's why it's the Eisenhower interstate system. They could have passed an amendment, but instead they jammed it in as part of national defense.