"Leslie Swartz" wrote in message
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Walt, that's a specious argument.

We haven't had a constitutional government in the US since 1865.

There are those who see the enforcement of the thirteenth amendment as a
good thing. The forteenth amendmend somehow seems to apply to all but the
second amendment.

Pointing to the failures of a "less socialist state" among "more socialist
states" doesn't say much.

Global competitiveness tends to put the lie to your interpretation, Steve.
The exidus of businesses from California is moving at an alarming rate.

"Walt BJ" wrote in message
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message news:3f611ad2
SNIP:
Federalism is the return of power to the States, which was originally
an
anti-federalist initiative. Jefferson dubbed the anti-federalists
"republicans" and then formed the Democratic Republican Party.
Federalists
(libertarins) did not want State fifedoms and opposed the Bill of
Rights.
SNIP:

And so we have the basket case of the USA, 50th in the great majority
of categories, Alabama, the spark plug for a lot of the USG's
mandates. I've been down there a couple times in December and guess
what? The state didn't have enough money to pay their teachers - both
times! - and Christmas was coming up.
California's now working on joining Alabama.
Walt BJ