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Re: Big government, I'm here to help you.

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What happened to state rights?
I agree. This is a decision that states should be allowed to make. The federal government has no place telling states how they can and cannot run themselves.

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said by batterup See Profile :

What happened to state rights?
I agree. This is a decision that states should be allowed to make. The federal government has no place telling states how they can and cannot run themselves.
But the state has the power to tell a City it cannot run itself?
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said by Maxo See Profile :

said by batterup See Profile :

What happened to state rights?
I agree. This is a decision that states should be allowed to make. The federal government has no place telling states how they can and cannot run themselves.
But the state has the power to tell a City it cannot run itself?
That depends on the state's constitution. The federal constitution gives the feds limited power and puts all other powers on the state. The state then gets to decide what remaining powers are theirs, and what goes to the local level.
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The US Constitution gives the feds powers over issues related to interstate commerce, a BROAD definition which in today's world would most certainly include the building of data networks, as it does telecommunications and transportation.

I have no problem with this law. My state is run by idiot blowhards.

Besides, in this day and age the idea that any of the states is somehow "independent" of all the others, that they somehow stand alone, is complete baloney.

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The US Constitution gives the feds powers over issues related to interstate commerce, a BROAD definition which in today's world would most certainly include the building of data networks, as it does telecommunications and transportation.
This is true. Interstate commerce act has been interpreted by the supreme court such that any and all activities fall under it's umbrella. If you eat with a fork in stead of a spork it is regulatable by the fed under interstate commerce because you have affected everyone in a very minute way because you have furthered the cause of spork lovers everywhere.
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I'm not sure, this actually looks more to me like an issue that could be argued as interstate commerce.
I honestly think it should be decided by the people.
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said by xrobertcmx See Profile :

I'm not sure, this actually looks more to me like an issue that could be argued as interstate commerce.
I honestly think it should be decided by the people.
The way the Supreme Court currently defines interstate commerce pretty much anything and everything falls under it. If you grow a tomato bush and eat the only tomato it produces, that could be regulated by the feds because you didn't buy the tomato at the store, which conceivably may have come from another state, and thus has affected interstate commerce and is now regulateable.
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