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>Federal law based on what the majority wanted was one of the things that the framers were afraid of.

Some framers were afraid of like Jefferson. Hamilton and Washington were federalists and favored a strong central government.

I personally like state power over federal. If your state sucks, you always have the option to move to another state. That's a pretty fantastic option. Of course it has it's problems too. The South struggled to get states to put money in to fight the Civil War because the central government couldn't require it, it had to beg for it.

>9 states should not be able to dictate what occurs in the other 41 states and vice versa. Full state rights. Again I am for the legalization marijuana, but this needs to be a state by state decision, not federal govt.

Not sure of the logic there. It seems like rthe 41 states are dictating to the 9 states since 41 states pot is illegal.

> I personally like state power over federal. If your state sucks, you always have the option to move to another state. That's a pretty fantastic option.

Note that that option was not at all available for those for whom their stated sucked due to the issue that was the original focus of the “states rights” controversy in the US. It's kind of interesting that you point to the Confederacy’s difficulties in raising revenue for the Civil War as a potential drawback of state over federal power, but not the issue which motivated the Confederacy.

>Note that that option was not at all available for those for whom their stated sucked due to the issue that was the original focus of the “states rights” controversy in the US.

Because that would be a massive moral crusade tangent that nobody wanted to read and was hardly relevant to the discussion.

>It's kind of interesting that you point to the Confederacy’s difficulties in raising revenue for the Civil War as a potential drawback of state over federal power, but not the issue which motivated the Confederacy.

Everybody knows the issue that motivated the Confederacy that has half a brain. I assumed everyone on here did as well.

> Not sure of the logic there.

Its really simple, if you don't understand this, you need to question your own logic. Basically the Marijuana issue should be a state decision, not dictated by the Fed Govt. What don't you understand here?

>9 states should not be able to dictate what occurs in the other 41 states and vice versa.

Because the 41 states are dictating to the 9 states that pot should be illegal, not the other way around.

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