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That's OK, I don't buy your attempt to be seen as educated on the topic. Your post is basically, "I don't really know anything, but I sure do read a lot of blo
by Locke1689 14y ago
That's OK, I don't buy your attempt to be seen as educated on the topic.
Your post is basically, "I don't really know anything, but I sure do read a lot of blogs." If you're actually interested in US govt. & politics open a first year textbook. The Constitution (and amendments) quite clearly describe the subdivision of governmental powers into 4 different areas: the legislative, the executive, the judicial, and the states.
- vacri 14y agoNice rebuttal: "Oh, it'll say it in this physical resource that you won't have access to". Looking through google for 'the United States Government', most of the results refer to the three branches, but describe other powers as falling to the states as a different entity, if they're described at all. Certainly if you look at news sources for terms like "called on the United States government", they're all federal-style issues, not state - state issues tend to be specified as such. You may also want to change the leading paragraph of the Wikipedia article, since it's peddling the "I don't really know anything" viewpoint, given how powerful WP is as a source. So, as I asked, do you have any reliable, definitive resources I can actually access, or are you content to just call me uneducated with a lazy, hand-wavy dismissal? I'm happy to be proven wrong, but not in the lazy way you're going about it.
- Locke1689 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism#United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism#United_States 'James Madison asserted that the states and national government "are in fact but different agents and trustees of the people, constituted with different powers."'