State Rights don’t exist at this time to the extent necessary to really practice federalism. For starters we’ve got to get some strict limits established on the application of the commerce clause. Until this federal encroahment is rolled back it’s going to be impossible to address many of these issues on the state level. The states have been hamstrung in the ability to run their affairs and some have gone as far as talk of secession in order to be freed from this entanglement. This very issue has come up recently wrt RKBA, gay marriage, and health care just to name a few.
THere’s no doubt in my mind that if states could decide on these issues we would overall have a much more conservative political climate in most of the country outside of a few liberal strongholds. When conservatives start to talk about state’s rights the elitists in DC and the northeast go nuts.
I’m all for states rights if we had any remaining.
Never forget this was written by the interminable Jazz Shaw, wadda tool!