[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Et tu, Roberts?

[Sir Napsalot]

Not 51st state.

LotR: 50 rings created, then The One State to rule them all.

[cvq3842]

No, there’s just one state. And one government. States are just for tourist ads. The rest of us are closer to serfs than to citizens.

[DownInFlames]

It all started w the war of northern aggression. Slavery was legal just like abortion is today and the union was split over states rights. The rest is history

[ClearCase_guy]

51st state?

Clearly, some states are more equal than others.

[Amendment10]

Note that state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified, in terms of the 10th Amendment nonetheless, that power which the states haven’t delegated to the feds expressly via the Constitution are prohibited to the feds.

”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

[Billthedrill]

No. Others have stated it and so I won’t belabor the point, but this isn’t one among equals, this is One State To Rule Them All.

[Amendment10]

Note that as a consequnece of the ill-conceived 17th Amendment that the corrupt Senate is approving pro-unconstitutionally big federal government activist justices to the Supreme Court instead of state sovereignty-respecting justices.

The 17th Amendment needs to disappear and corrupt senators and anti-state sovereignty activist justices along with it.

[fwdude]

Disagree. The U.S. is now one socialist state.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I wouldn’t phrase it that way. They have made the federal government the super-state. Individual states are just an obstacle to the super-state. They just waste time and money.

The superior portions of the super-state are:

1. The Judiciary
2. The Executive.

The federal legislature is just a farce to give the people of the states some sense that they can affect outcomes. They can’t. But it forestalls a revolution of the people.

[GregoTX]

James Madison, the Author of Federalist 45, "The Alleged Danger From the Powers of the Union to the State Governments Considered", in The Federalist Papers would not approve.

The idea that the reach of the federal government would be restricted to a few enumerated powers is articulated by Madison in Federalist No. 45:

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”

[ChessExpert]

Once again, the tenth Amendment is ignored. The Bill of Rights is ignored. The Constitution is ignored. Ours is a lawless Federal Government. At what point do we conclude that our national government is illegitimate?

[Dr.Deth]

Most disturbing impact of SCOTUS rulings: They’ve made the federal government the 51st state: They’ve made the federal government the 51st state

And they just made Mexico the 52nd, Guatemala the 53rd, etc etc.

Fork. Stuck. Done.