[aristeides]

It's not just a matter of spinelessness. The executive and legislative branches of the federal government find it highly convenient that the courts get to handle their hot potatoes, and also to carry their water by diminishing the powers of the states. Never would have happened without the Nineteenth Amendment.

[exmarine]

The executive and legislative branches of the federal government find it highly convenient that the courts get to handle their hot potatoes, and also to carry their water by diminishing the powers of the states.

Yes, so much for federalism and self-government, eh? Self-government is a dead duck - can anyone pretend that any State or City or County is self-governing? There are so many federal regulations, taxes, etc., that self-governance is but a mere memory. The feds even tell the states that they can't erect 10 comandments in their own courthouses, or pass laws against sodomy, which are clearly allowed under the 10th Amendment. The invented doctrine of incorporation came very late in time (20th century) just as the phoney doctrine of separation and church and state (Everson 1947) did.

[stand watie]

YEP!

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