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The Birth of the American City-state: Socialist big cities vs. the conservative countrysides.
American Thinker ^ | 02/16/2014 | Greg Penglis

Posted on 02/16/2014 3:46:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Mark Levin has proposed a series of "Liberty Amendments" to the Constitution through an Article 5 state convention. I have my own set of amendments which I hope to share here and add to the proposed Liberty Amendments. The first involves the resurrection of the city-state. This plan would take our largest cities, governed primarily by socialist Democrats, and separate them out as independent, self-governing, self-funding political units, with no connection to the states, but within the exclusive oversight of the federal government, just as the states are.

There is a huge separation in this country right now between the socialist big cities and the conservative countrysides. Many times, especially in California where I live, the socialist cities have enough people, and votes, to edge out the conservative countryside in every major state and federal election, despite the fact that the countryside constitutes a vastly larger area, and includes millions of people. Conservatives within that vast area are completely disenfranchised from true representation, even up to the president.

If you took San Francisco, Sacramento, and Los Angeles out of the state of California, and left the rest of the state alone to govern itself, the world of electoral politics, and every other issue, would completely change. Therefore I propose that cities over a certain size and metropolitan character be designated as city-states, that their legislators and officers be recalled from the state governments, that the city-states have no connection or ties with the surrounding states, that no person residing in a city-state may hold any government position in a state, and vice-versa, that crossing a city-state line is the equivalent of crossing a state line, and that the city-states become completely independent political, legal, and financial entities.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: cities; citystate; conservatism; countryside
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To: SeekAndFind

Believe it or not, once upon the time America’s large cities were bastions of civilization, safety, and even religion. That has all changed and the ultimate cause was the development of the Democrat political machine (a la Boss Tweed). The Democrat party at that time might not have stood for the abominations it does today but the machine founded at that time became the mechanism through which our cities were subverted and turned into hell-holes.


21 posted on 02/19/2014 10:55:51 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If you have an Article 5, remember that the grasshoppers outnumber the ants.

I can’t believe people think a Constitutional convention is a good idea with our current make up. The chance for hot civil war or mass camps is to great.


22 posted on 02/19/2014 11:29:16 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: SeekAndFind

But in the ages of Clintoid and Obama, the suburbs are moving left too. Already were in NYC and Philadelphia for years


23 posted on 02/19/2014 8:31:35 PM PST by Theodore R. (Alas: TX Republicans to endorse Cornball and George P! Stay tuned March 4)
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