Federally Ruled Amerigo

[LSJ]

The president has full powers, and rules the states. The states are not independant, but treated like districts.
Was it not supposed to be a Union, where the states made their own laws, and were basically a coalition to defend against attacks on any state within the union as well as cooperatively grow the economy? Federal laws and powers were supposed to be limited, and agreed upon by the states. Now, the states have very limited power over what the president authorizes.

One state can have legislation enforced that aids it, but is harmful to another, or is just unsupported.

With wiretapping, the NSA should not be able to carry it out unwarranted unless the state government approves of it. Even if a high-population state supports it, it should not represent every state.
If 51% of Americans approve of it, over half of the states may still be against it. Because New Yorkers approve of one law, should it represent what the people of Nevada want?

Even if America was supposed to be designed in a way that the state gives up a lot of power, is a union where states have self control better than a federally-run nation, or is a true state-union too disorderly and disfunctional for America?
A reworking of the system thats been in place for so long would be chaotic and disfunctional of course; but I don't mean America after 230 years of the current system, but when the nation was created, up until about 1950.


I was just thinking about the Soviet Union and its strange ways... More like annexing other nations to Russia than a union of Comrades... Same thing, but more messed up Commie version.

[Last Roman]

The states were not meant to be independent, thus why the US switched from the Articles of Confederation to the modern Constitution. However, over time, the office of the president and the federal goverment have grown beyond their intended powers, sometimes for the better and many times for the worse. One of the reasons, I think, this has happened is because of the rapid expansion of the US. When our constitution was written, the US only occupied part the eastern seaboard. During the expansion, direction was needed and who better than the fed gov't and the pres? But now nearly 50 years after our last aquisition (Hawaii), the fed. gov't does not need to be the size that is now and the office of the president needs to move back 100 years.

[removeduser_487563287433]

This entire post is based on an assumption that from the outset is incorrect. Despite what it suggests, the USA does operate a federal system and the states do have relatively broad freedoms of government. A very recent example would be the governor of California signing an environmental pact with Tony Blair, in an explicit rebellion against George Bush and his administration's environmental policy.

[RusskiSoldat]

Not to mention how utterly stupid it is to turn a country which has gained everything through diversity and unity into a confederation of 50 states most of which have very little to offer to the rest.
Unity is the key to success, not competition, which in the case of countries makes them strive to undermine each other.
And there is no guarantee at all a confederate union with nothing to hold it together would stay in alliance long.