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State Sovereignty Still Matters
« on: June 18, 2021, 04:06:29 pm »
 State Sovereignty Still Matters
Big or little, red or blue — all states are protected by the Constitution.
by Robert Stacy McCain
June 17, 2021, 11:55 PM

Why is Rhode Island a state? Why does a tiny spot on the Atlantic coast, wedged in between Massachusetts and Connecticut, have as many votes in the U.S. Senate as the entire state of Texas? The answers to these questions involve history and the Constitution, and one might hope that the attorney general of the United States would understand this. Alas, it seems that Merrick Garland could be due for a refresher course on how America’s federal system of government came into being and how it is supposed to operate. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich was happy to provide the lesson this week.

The Republicans who control Arizona’s state senate have been conducting a forensic audit of the 2020 election results in Maricopa County, Arizona, to clear up suspicion from supporters of former President Donald Trump that Democrats in the county engaged in shenanigans with the vote count, tipping Arizona’s 11 Electoral College votes to Joe Biden. Garland had huffed in a speech Friday that the Arizona election audit is “based on disinformation,” asserting that suspicions of vote fraud “have been refuted by law enforcement and intelligence agencies.” Garland said the federal Department of Justice will be keeping a close eye on Arizona, implying a threat to interfere in the state’s affairs that Brnovich denounced.

“My office is not amused by the DOJ’s posturing,” Brnovich wrote in his Monday letter to Garland, “and will not tolerate any effort to undermine or interfere with our State Senate’s audit to reassure Arizonans of the accuracy of our elections. We stand ready to defend federalism and state sovereignty against any partisan attack or federal overreach.”

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Re: State Sovereignty Still Matters
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2021, 06:32:21 pm »
Actually, it is the ONLY thing that matters when it comes to the laws and governance of the United STATES.

The federal Constitution was created by the sovereign states for specific purposes only and can be done away by the states.  It was never intended to usurp the sovereignty of states.
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Re: State Sovereignty Still Matters
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2021, 09:18:59 pm »
Actually, it is the ONLY thing that matters when it comes to the laws and governance of the United STATES.

The federal Constitution was created by the sovereign states for specific purposes only and can be done away by the states.  It was never intended to usurp the sovereignty of states.
Then why did the states reject a confederation for union whereby the federal constitution is the supreme law of the land?

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Re: State Sovereignty Still Matters
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2021, 01:13:03 am »
Then why did the states reject a confederation for union whereby the federal constitution is the supreme law of the land?
If you are referring to the Articles of Confederation, where did you read these were rejected?

All states ratified and the government of this country operated under these Articles from 1781 to 1789 until the US Constitution was created to replace them.
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Re: State Sovereignty Still Matters
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2021, 02:01:29 am »
If you are referring to the Articles of Confederation, where did you read these were rejected?

All states ratified and the government of this country operated under these Articles from 1781 to 1789 until the US Constitution was created to replace them.

The Articles of Confederation were rejected because they did not work.

How do we know the states rejected the Articles of Confederation?

All states ratified the Constitution, which completely and irrevocably replaced the Articles.

States now have LIMITED sovereignty. The Federal government has LIMITED authority in powers ceded to it by the states.

The States, by their ratification of the Constitution FOR THE PEOPLE, lost more than sovereign right they possessed under the Articles, and of those was the right of secession.

One of the rights they retained was their legislature's authority to run elections, which right has been usurped in recent times (since the 1870's) by Democrat Party operatives to steal elections for the Party.  Lenin had nothing to teach these people.

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Re: State Sovereignty Still Matters
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2021, 02:22:42 am »
More than ever. This country will ultimately devolve into Red and Blue enclaves if the DC leadership continues to be ever more impotent.
The Republic is lost.