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Re: Granting the power to giveth, also to taketh. said by fAcEtIOUs:That horse left the corral a LONG time ago. The states are just more beggars to be handed Federal money. When you are on the welfare teat like the states are, any real power is gone. There was no real power the moment the Constitution was ratified. The contradiction between federal supremacy and so-called state's rights, 3/5 representation of slaves (without actual representation), responsibility to force states to provide a republican form of government, etc.
The real problem was slavery. The creation of a supreme, federal government would ultimately lead to states finding out who is "sovereign." You can't ratify a constitution embodying principles of free will and autonomy while enslaving your residents. Insisting they count in terms of representation, but can't be represented.
The question is whether things would be better with sovereign states under the Articles of Confederation. One doesn't have to look very hard to see how that was working for 12 years. We might not have survived either world war, etc. Not when one state can simply withdraw because it's in their self-interest to charge their neighbors impost fees than to work for a common good.
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