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If we are the United States then why are our laws so different from state to state?If we are supposed to be so united why are driving ages different,marriage ages,capital punishment,etc...?
No federal government can serve you as well as a local one. It would be stupid to allow people to vote in California for a problem in New Jersey. Disregarding American heritage aside.
No federal government can serve you as well as a local one. It would be stupid to allow people to vote in California for a problem in New Jersey. Disregarding American heritage aside.
Who said anything about voting for state issues?Certain laws should be universal from state to state(capital punishment,drinking ages,help for children with disabilities,marriage age).State budgets with allocated money is a different issue.
The Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
No federal government can serve you as well as a local one. It would be stupid to allow people to vote in California for a problem in New Jersey. Disregarding American heritage aside.
The Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The constitution is changed all the time(amended).While I think that certain things like school budgets and funding,hospitals,etc...should be left to the individual states things like drinking and driving ages shouldn't. Based on the open alcohol laws of Nevada,if you walked to the next state you would be arrested once you crossed over.Certain laws should be universal!
The constitution is changed all the time(amended).While I think that certain things like school budgets and funding,hospitals,etc...should be left to the individual states things like drinking and driving ages shouldn't. Based on the open alcohol laws of Nevada,if you walked to the next state you would be arrested once you crossed over.Certain laws should be universal!
If the locals feel strongly enough about an issue (such as the one you've presented), then they can petition their local state government to make the change in the law. It is not necessary to amend the Constitution to do address the 'inconsistencies' between one state and another.
If the locals feel strongly enough about an issue (such as the one you've presented), then they can petition their local state government to make the change in the law. It is not necessary to amend the Constitution to do address the 'inconsistencies' between one state and another.
Obviously certain laws are necessarily different like states that are more rural with an agrarian society.When you have a place like Idaho,there laws or rules or funding for agriculture would obviously be different from a place like Alaska which probably doesn't have much of a product.I do think we do need certain laws that are universal from state to state such as the ones previously mentioned.
Because, the federal government is painfully slow moving, even during periods of single party power, and rightfully slow. Keep in mind that the original colonies had just come out of a monarchy were laws were passed and changed on a whim, and decisions were made by a far away king.
States can respond to certain changes within their own borders more quickly than the federal government can, hence the state's rights clause in the Consitution.
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