In fairness, Paul, there is more here than I can unpack at the moment. That we have a minor disagreement over the so-called line of separation between freedom of religion and the obligations of a constitutional republic puts us in the mainstream of the American populace.
As to what I understand to be your point that the Federal government is supreme over the States that supremacy exists only in a few select and delineated powers. All other powers are the purview of the individual States or to the People as per the Tenth Amendment.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states,, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
When the Supreme Court correctly overturned Roe v Wade the justices did not ban abortion nationwide, they merely returned the issue to the individual States where it belonged in the first place per the 10th Amendment. Based on her published remarks prior to her death even as progressive a jurist as Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have most probably agreed with the majority.
Indeed, this is a lot to unpack and it will take honest Americans from all sides of all aisles, to do the hard work of removing hyper-partisanship from our political landscape. There will always be the minority who prefer extreme measures based on an absence of truth who seek power for the sake of power. There was a time in our nation when extremes lived in the margins. This is no longer so. No one denies that there is extremism on both sides of the aisle. The truth is that the left extremists in congress are marginalized by their part and little to nothing ever gets out of committee. The MAGA movement though is devoid of American principles and controls the party. It will be up to principled conservatives to take back the party. This is an effort that still remains impotent against MAGA… yet they continue to still vote Republican. Our SCOTUS is responsible for codifying the legislation by Congress which these days, amounts primarily to enabling religious and elite wealth over our actual founding principles.
It will require honest discussions like you and I have had great success with as old friends. Too bad that we can’t get America to behave in a similar fashion.
Cheers Doc and enjoy every moment of the weekend,
P
P.s Your comments about Ginsburg… her great friendship with Scalia enabled some of the best judicial conversation, to ever grace the halls of the Supreme Court, despite their differences.
In fairness, Paul, there is more here than I can unpack at the moment. That we have a minor disagreement over the so-called line of separation between freedom of religion and the obligations of a constitutional republic puts us in the mainstream of the American populace.
As to what I understand to be your point that the Federal government is supreme over the States that supremacy exists only in a few select and delineated powers. All other powers are the purview of the individual States or to the People as per the Tenth Amendment.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states,, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
When the Supreme Court correctly overturned Roe v Wade the justices did not ban abortion nationwide, they merely returned the issue to the individual States where it belonged in the first place per the 10th Amendment. Based on her published remarks prior to her death even as progressive a jurist as Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have most probably agreed with the majority.
Indeed, this is a lot to unpack and it will take honest Americans from all sides of all aisles, to do the hard work of removing hyper-partisanship from our political landscape. There will always be the minority who prefer extreme measures based on an absence of truth who seek power for the sake of power. There was a time in our nation when extremes lived in the margins. This is no longer so. No one denies that there is extremism on both sides of the aisle. The truth is that the left extremists in congress are marginalized by their part and little to nothing ever gets out of committee. The MAGA movement though is devoid of American principles and controls the party. It will be up to principled conservatives to take back the party. This is an effort that still remains impotent against MAGA… yet they continue to still vote Republican. Our SCOTUS is responsible for codifying the legislation by Congress which these days, amounts primarily to enabling religious and elite wealth over our actual founding principles.
It will require honest discussions like you and I have had great success with as old friends. Too bad that we can’t get America to behave in a similar fashion.
Cheers Doc and enjoy every moment of the weekend,
P
P.s Your comments about Ginsburg… her great friendship with Scalia enabled some of the best judicial conversation, to ever grace the halls of the Supreme Court, despite their differences.