2006-11-26 03:44:09 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
with almost all power residing in the states?
2006-11-26 03:45:03 · update #1
Hell no. Remember that during the segregation era, southern states hindered the advancement of equality by declaring they were "sovereign states" and didn't had to obey federal law. I support states rights to some limit and I think when states conflict with federal government then we are in trouble.
2006-11-26 03:49:02 · answer #1 · answered by cynical 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, that would louse up our foreign policy. And create a crazy-quilt patchwork of laws. If we cannot be One Nation, United and Indivisible, then I say break the USA up, like some are suggesting we do to Iraq. The Greater Northeast, Minnesota to Maine and down to Maryland, and out to (but not including)Missouri would be the USA. The Confederate States of America would be allowed to Rise agin', and they'd get the prarie and mountain states, too. The West Coast, including Nevada, would be another country. Hawaii would be the independent Polynesian kingdom it used to be. Alaska can join Canada or be independent.
I'd love to shed the Deep South, I really would.
2006-11-26 13:33:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't support it, because it wouldn't work. If all the power was vested in the states, then all of the money would have to come from there too. Most states wouldn't know how to go back to being sovereign because they are too dependent on the Fed.
On the good side, then all of the people who live on Government welfare would be cut off.
2006-11-26 11:55:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Been there done that -- The Articles of Confederation. It didn't work then and would be impossible to implement now, and if it was we would no longer be a strong country.
2006-11-26 11:49:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It failed twice in our country already. (Articles of Confederation and the South.)
2006-11-26 12:01:35 · answer #5 · answered by Shotten 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Half the country did that in the mid 1800's... the other half sure didn't like it...
It is a REAL good idea though.
2006-11-26 11:49:09 · answer #6 · answered by Gunny T 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, I'm a federalist.
2006-11-26 12:10:51 · answer #7 · answered by Tofu Jesus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would, but it will never happen. It would solve so many problems though.
2006-11-26 11:46:58 · answer #8 · answered by daniel g 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No!!!!!!!
2006-11-26 21:32:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋