Have you heard about the argument that abortion is not only not protected by the 14th amendment, but that life is protected by the equal protection clause? ie the feds could force pro-abortion States to ban abortion anyways?
No, but it stands to reason if you consider a fetus to be a life. I could see a Federal ban on abortion as more Constitutional than allowing it to continue.
All this tells me is that the Founders were "tragic geniuses" in the sense that they tried their best to apply these ideals of a two-sided decentralized (State) / centralized (Federal) government but they ended up creating a monster.
America would have looked a lot different if they had, instead, found inspiration in early German or Roman history and law rather than their later periods. They focused so much on the decay and overreach of government that they failed to recognize the importance of the smallfolk and allowing them to live fairly unimpeded. Thus we get an innumerable amount of unnatural law which is a pain to understand and purposefully so.
The entire point of the pre-14th Amendment Constitution was to keep the Federal government from interfering in State/local affairs. I don’t know how that’s anything other than “recognizing the importance of the smallfolk.”
Because now, instead of one entity oppressing you (such as a monarch), you've now got TWO to worry about, both the State *and* Federal government. In the way that things have worked out, the two of them have now banded together to serve the general purpose of dunking on the average citizen.
The structure of leadership should be more cultural than political, akin to how medieval Germanic "diets" were simply more formal versions of tribal chieftains traditionally gathering to make broader decisions which will be passed on to the folk.
Long read but well worth it. You explain it all well, Chandra would be proud
Have you heard about the argument that abortion is not only not protected by the 14th amendment, but that life is protected by the equal protection clause? ie the feds could force pro-abortion States to ban abortion anyways?
No, but it stands to reason if you consider a fetus to be a life. I could see a Federal ban on abortion as more Constitutional than allowing it to continue.
All this tells me is that the Founders were "tragic geniuses" in the sense that they tried their best to apply these ideals of a two-sided decentralized (State) / centralized (Federal) government but they ended up creating a monster.
America would have looked a lot different if they had, instead, found inspiration in early German or Roman history and law rather than their later periods. They focused so much on the decay and overreach of government that they failed to recognize the importance of the smallfolk and allowing them to live fairly unimpeded. Thus we get an innumerable amount of unnatural law which is a pain to understand and purposefully so.
The entire point of the pre-14th Amendment Constitution was to keep the Federal government from interfering in State/local affairs. I don’t know how that’s anything other than “recognizing the importance of the smallfolk.”
Because now, instead of one entity oppressing you (such as a monarch), you've now got TWO to worry about, both the State *and* Federal government. In the way that things have worked out, the two of them have now banded together to serve the general purpose of dunking on the average citizen.
The structure of leadership should be more cultural than political, akin to how medieval Germanic "diets" were simply more formal versions of tribal chieftains traditionally gathering to make broader decisions which will be passed on to the folk.