Originally Posted by Anikdote

I agree. Federal powers are enumerated and explicit and these types of matter should be left up to the individual states to decide. Hell if Vegas can have legal prostitution why can't Californians get stoned?

Originally Posted by Foolosophy

Logic is for heartless cowards and deluded ideological iconoclastic mathematicians

Originally Posted by White Fox

And after they're all stoned, that's when we attack. Down with the socialist regime! Show no mercy. This is America for God's sake.

Originally Posted by Publius Infinitum

Grab a clue and not the name of the nation...

The United States....

Now if we dispatch federalism and simply melt the whole into one giant social democracy, doomed to failure... then we would not be states whic are united now would we? We'd by one giant socialist Shiite Hole, wating to collapse under the weight of an absurd ideology founded on myth and magic...

Originally Posted by Foolosophy

Logic is for heartless cowards and deluded ideological iconoclastic mathematicians

Originally Posted by jcwang

We American seems to take the state/federal system for granted, we allow each state to have different laws and rules. Every state's laws, crimes/sentences, doctor practices/ building codes/ state taxes, school regulations are different. As a nation why can we just have one law and one system for every state? A general election is an election conducted by the nation, not each states to avoid inconsistency and fraud.

The establishment of United States might be good for last centries, but now it is the time to unite the nation and make it as one nation. The problem with different states to have its own judiciary power, it creates more confusion and difficulty to American citizen to understand and follow.

Personally I think it is time fro The Republic of America to be born. If we want to remain this nation to be stronger and the leading power of the world.