Differences throughout the country do occur and the diversity of our people, and in this case our states, come together to make us who we are. Yes, there are all kinds of things going on in individual states that come together in a way that make our country who we are - that have an effect on our nation.
Example: Texas has affected many other states by having an incredible business environment that has made it a location many businesses have transferred to, leaving other states with more liberal policies. When California looses so many businesses and falls apart, that affects our entire country. However, it does so within the jurisdiction of the right for a state to set its own legislation and policy for its state’s residents (and businesses in this case).
The fine line in the sand seems to come more into focus when a state robs American citizens of Constitutional rights, and this is what the federal court system is looking at in this case. We don’t know the answer from the courts yet, but are the rights of individual citizens being robbed by a state’s action that was possibly done with an anti-republican-government method or for an anti-republican-government goal, and does that theft of citizen rights then flow into the loss of rights of American citizens overall then?
I’m sure you are wise enough to understand there is a serious difference between a state protecting citizens or maneuvering within our Republican form of government and actions geared towards destroying our Republican form of government.
While this study is obviously going to be somewhat different than this case, the following excerpt should clarify (at least for reasonable people) the difference between a state’s right to work within the Constitution, ie protect the votes of its legitimate citizens and reject voting by illegal residents (voter ID) or a state’s determination to protect both its Democratic and Republican citizens’ choices with closed primaries verses a theft of Constitutionally-set practices which, when abused (by a group, state, or otherwise), can damage the rights of the entire group of American citizens.
Anyone reading this and wondering about this might enjoy reading this little snippet, or enjoy the entire publication at the URL below the excerpt.
Excerpt:
Justice Hugo Black wrote: “[I]t seems to me that [a law] which gives federal officials power to veto state laws they do not like is in direct conflict with the clear command of our Constitution that ‘The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.”
Judge John Minor Wisdom likewise noted:
The question in this case is whether the constitutional amendment was adopted in an unrepublican manner; more specifically, whether the ballot was so misleading that the people were deprived of one of the fundamental rights inherent in a republican government, the right to vote ...
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Excerpt from:
http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1289&context=wmlr
“The fine line in the sand seems to come more into focus when a state robs American citizens of Constitutional rights, and this is what the federal court system is looking at in this case.”
Virginia and the Virginia Republican Party are in no way robbing or restricting anyone’s constitutional rights.
However, if you are able to, please cite which constitutional rights are being violate in this Virginia case.
if this were the left doing it to republicans the MSM would be cheering.
the days of just sitting back and giving up for the sake of the insiders is long gone.