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edlorah (view)

"What he has said repeatedly is that the federal government has no business legislating that issue for all the states unless a change is made to the constitution."

The argument about 'states' rights' vs. the role of the Federal govt is as old as the country itself. And no, they're not going to change the Constitution on this one....

I don't want to live in a 'balkanized' fifty state consortium, where every backwater fiefdom and well- oiled urban political machine calls the shots. Don't forget the 'states rights' arguments of the modern civil rights era. It took the Federal govt to put us on the road to sanity.

In case you have forgotten, here's Phil Ochs with a history lesson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAlGyXBQZCk

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"It was done only for political reasons only anyway. "
posted 2008.05.13
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