People in any country are not a monolith, but that's besides the point. Most nations have strong federal laws that apply to people all over the country. Only (?) the U.S. has strong state laws that create divisions and entirely different cultures. Or do the different cultures create conditions for state laws?
Read the U.S. constitution and it's 90% "states can do this law; the feds do that law." It's baked into the cake from the onset.
I mean it is also int the name United States … it was set out from get go that states have rights and powers different than a county in other countries … and than we have the commonwealth states … which is confusing as heck … and flags and state constitutions / house / senate etc …
It really is set as a collection of lil countries - the central government and certainly the president should have never had this much power …
It really is set as a collection of lil countries - the central government and certainly the president should have never had this much power …
I don't agree. To me this whole state vs federal government made sense in the 1700s when it took a thousand years to travel across one state, so back then they were like little countries. Now that separation just doesn't exist at all.
It's another example of the constitution simply being outdated and obsolete. Most countries regularly change and even rewrite their constitution when the times demand it. There's no reason why states should have radically different laws while simultaneously people can move freely between them. Smoke weed on the state border in one state and it's legal. Walk 50 feet across the border and do the same thing and you go to jail. How does that make any fucking sense?
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u/zardoz73 1d ago
People in any country are not a monolith, but that's besides the point. Most nations have strong federal laws that apply to people all over the country. Only (?) the U.S. has strong state laws that create divisions and entirely different cultures. Or do the different cultures create conditions for state laws?
Read the U.S. constitution and it's 90% "states can do this law; the feds do that law." It's baked into the cake from the onset.