The history of civil rights in the United States is strong evidence that doesn't work in all cases.
There's a good chance Mask mandates and COVID restrictions would have been permanent if it was federal law.
The freedom of ideas given via states rights allows for a wide variety of ideas to be tested which allows the best ideas to be selected.
Instead of a federal law that stamps out any ideas but one.
Thank goodness the rational headed members of the Surpreme court ruled against vaccine mandates as well despite Sotomayor falsely claiming that there's 100,000 children on ventilators.
Do you have any evidence this is the case? Current federal institutions have fluctuated their guidelines, the opposite of permanency.
It took the brave governors of Texas and Florida to open up during a time of mass sensationalism and demonization to show that it wasn't as bad as the liberal states were predicting.
With the Liberals taking both branches of federal congress and the presidency it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put two and two together.
They tried to put through a federal vaccine mandate which was struck down by the courts on grounds of....federal overreach.
And now thanks to conservative governors and states rights we can all live our normal lives again because everyone is falling in line with those conservative states who were brave enough to stand up against the crazy liberal policies.
This applies to defunding the police as well. Many of the liberal states that implemented defunding the police are changing that as well.
Sensational policy making appears to be a pattern with liberal states which is why states rights are beautiful. It highlights poor policy making.
It is a double edged sword though because liberal states have many good policies.
The point is having a variety in policies leads to richer, better governing.
Florida hasn't done very well with COVID [1].
http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...
California and New York lifted their covid restrictions the past few weeks... even though the pandemic is not over...
Florida and Texas were right.
[1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...
Still higher than most of the pandemic over the last two years.
They're lifting them because they're realizing the restrictions are pointless and hopeless.
Which means they were wrong all along and Tx and FL were right.
If the Texas governor was so brave why was the Texas governors mansion closed for public tours for the official reason of protecting his family from Covid?
And New York and California are still lifting covid restrictions.
State's are realizing that Florida and Texas were right from the beginning and copying them.
Maybe now the approach makes more sense since vaccination rates are higher but it certainly did not at the time.
Deaths are between 1500 and 2000 a day across the U.S..... higher than all but 3 to 5 months of the 2 year pandemic.
The people who are going for misinformed political brownie points are the Liberal states who know if they don't lift the covid restrictions during a voting year they will be removed from office which is extremely sick and hypocritical if you ask me, especially after demonizing republicans who stuck to their priniciples.
If legal slavery was a federal law, it would still exist today.
The beauty of states rights is that there's context to see why something is good or bad.
Rather than the despotic federal boot that crushes any dissent.
Perhaps if the confederacy had won, given that the confederate government did institute laws to that effect upon its member states: confederate states were not allowed to aid or abet fugitive slaves.
Confederate Statutes, Chapter 19, Section 50.
But they didn't, and the United States government explicitly abolished slavery (despite some states wanting it, and some states not) that we don't have slavery in the US, not even in the states which embrace confederacy ideals today.
And, not having slavery? That's a good thing. Thanks, US Government.
Regardless, I think slavery is a dreadful example because it leaves the definition of personhood up to individual states and that is ridiculous.
Slavery does not even fit in to those basic fundamental Bill of Rights.