Federalizam

Konsenzus da je svaki govor o pravu federalnih država u Americi da ponište ili makar dovedu u pitanje odluke federalne vlade ravan zločinu je širi nego što biste možda na prvu loptu pomislili. Uz obećanje da nećete koristiti google, postavio bih pitanje: koji progresivni političar je rekao sledeće stvari:

The individual states of the American Union . . . could not have possessed any state sovereignty of their own. For it was not these states that formed the Union, on the contrary it was the Union which formed a great part of such so-called states.

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the cry for the elimination of centralization is really nothing more than a party machination without any serious thought behind it...and reveals...the inner hypocrisy of these so-called federalistic circles. The federative state idea, like religion in part, is only an instrument for their often unclean party interests

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Since for us the state as such is only a form, but the essential is its content, the nation, the people, it is clear that everything else must be subordinated to its sovereign interests. In particular we cannot grant to any individual state within the nation and the state representing it state sovereignty and sovereignty in point of political power

Evo odgovora. Materijal ovde.