54.9% of state legislatures are Republican, 44.35% Democratic

Ballotpedia News ^ | 5/16/23 | Maddie Sinclair Johnson

[Steven Scharf]

There are 7,383 state legislative seats in the country.

I would have guessed twice that number.

State size does not dictate legislature size.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article dpetty121263.

"Federal law overrides State law so the GOP is sucking hind tit."

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Respectfully dpetty121263, federal law overrides state law only when federal law is reasonably based on a specific power that that states have expressly constitutionally given to the feds.

"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution [emphasis added], nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Otherwise, a federal law that is not reasonably based on a constitutionally enumerated power is unconstitutional and needs to be removed from the books.

"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.

Most post-17th Amendment ratification federal domestic policy is based on stolen state powers imo.

In fact, if a given federal domestic spending program is not reasonably related to the US Mail Service, then you can bet that it is unconstitutional and win your bet probably most of the time.

"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads [, a power to provide for cutting canals where deemed necessary];"

The drafters of the Constitution had intended for each state to establish its own social spending programs, depending on what programs the ordinary qualified citizen voters of a given state want.

In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, the main author of the 14th Amendment, had clarified that the Founders had intended for the states to care for the people, not the feds.

”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)

But since the corrupt feds keep stealing state revenues by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, it makes it harder for the states to give their respective citizens what they want.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

The definition of insanity is reelecting your beloved career state and federal lawmakers and executives over and over again, expecting remedies for unconstitutional government policies every time.