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Why even have states? Or cities? What purpose do they serve?
by SoftTalker 1y ago
Why even have states? Or cities? What purpose do they serve?
- wing-_-nuts 1y agoWhy this non-sequitur?
- PaulDavisThe1st 1y agoCities have no representation at the federal level, so we can leave those out of the question. Why have states? Why indeed! One answer: to create a level of governmental organization smaller than the federal one that can act as a set of laboratories for legislative and legal experimentation. Another answer: to reflect the fact that not all laws and regulations make sense across a diverse range of climate and geography and demographics and economies. Neither of those answers, however, require states to be considered inviolable sovereign entities, and a lot of us born after 1880 don't think of them that way.