Im sorry Norah but that's an insanely bad idea.
First, it's a rehashing of the "States Rights" and "Nullification" arguments that were put to rest in 1865. Secondly it would turn our Constitution into so much toilet paper.
We live in a Republic and in a Republic people have rights. No where in our Constitution are the States granted the sole power to interpret which laws are constitutional and which are not.
The consequences of what you suggest is to convert our nation from a Republic, into a confederacy.
Guess what, it's been tried twice before and failed badly. The first time it failed it led our founding fathers to devise a democratic Republic based on self governance that has a strong central government.
What your suggesting is an aristocracy of good ole boys whom if they cannot have all things there way in all ways then they shall take their ball home and not play.
So yea...one of the worst ideas ever.
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Phantasmal (04-05-2016)
rRead your history Nora. It's been tried before. The consequences are a weak and ineffective central government. Each State could literally go it's own way in anything. Law, banking, cuurrency, foreign policy, commerce, national defense, etc, and it leaves no bulwark in which to protect individual rights broadly.
The consequences of such an amendment would be catastrophic and it is essentially unpatriotic as such an amendment would severe the ties that bind our States as a nation and would mean the end of America as a nation.
So you might want to consider such a reactionary notion as a colossally bad idea.
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No but undermining the Constitution with an extremely bad idea our founding fathers tried and abandoned because it failed miserably is no solution.
What it really demonstrates is the fatal flaw of social conservatives ability to adapt to change and when I say " fatal" I mean it literally.
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I think our Constitution is working as it was meant to. Is a huge factor in why we are a dominant world power and your view represents the complaints and resentments of those whose failed ideas have lost in the market place of ideas and are unable to adjust to change and progress.
Reverting back to ideas of the past that have been tried and failed is no solution to our nations problems and it sure as hell is no way to lead a nation forward.
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Well, if you say so. I doubt its true, but if it is... thanks for confidentiality, I simply feel like one of these psycho's might show up at my doorstep some day angry.
Generally I don't care, I share my cell phone and personal info freely, but this place attracts some whackos. I don't care if ILA has my info for example, hes a whacko but also a pussy.
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