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"The US Constitution is set up to give states some power and the feds other power." That's not quite accurate. The states declared independence from the UK. Ea
by jayess 11y ago
"The US Constitution is set up to give states some power and the feds other power."
That's not quite accurate. The states declared independence from the UK. Each state was a sovereign nation. Those states then combined to delegate some of their authority to the federal government. So in effect, the United States is a nation of 50 countries with one federal authority that was formed to handle matters of international importance, as well as, of course, matters of an interstate relations.
- rhino369 11y agoThat isn't really true. US states are not fully sovereign. The United States could abolish the states entirely by modification of the Constitution. The union of the states is "perpetual." America fought this battle at the ballot box during the ratification of the Constitution, the federalists won. And again during the Civil War, the unionists won. It is a settled matter.
- __z 11y agoEven if it were true it doesn't differ in meaning at all from what I said. I put the caveat it was a very simplistic explication - there is shared sovereignty which is defined in the US Constitution, that's the important part. If we want to be annoying pedantic the US fought against Great Britain for independence, the UK didn't even exist then.