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[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The things that the federal government is responsible for are laid out in the Constitution, everything the Constitution does not place into the responsibilities of the federal government is left to state or local authorities.

Tenth Amendment:

Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

that old thing desperately needs to be rewritten

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You trust the politicians of today to rewrite the whole thing? They can't even agree on a budget.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Before or after a guillotine is set up outside the place where they're drafting it as insurance?