There is much to unpack in this essay, but one thing that jumps out at me, despite its not being the emphasis of the article, is the need to re-examine the "States' Rights" doctrine that has caused so much chaos and injustice over our history. We are no longer a fledgling nation trying to pull a unity out of several very independent form…
There is much to unpack in this essay, but one thing that jumps out at me, despite its not being the emphasis of the article, is the need to re-examine the "States' Rights" doctrine that has caused so much chaos and injustice over our history. We are no longer a fledgling nation trying to pull a unity out of several very independent former colonies, newly referred to as "states." We no longer need, in my opinion, to cater quite so much to the individual needs and prejudices of each of the 50. We fought a Civil War to cement our union. There are local and regional issues that can be left to states to manage, just as there are county and municipal governments within each state that deal with the needs of the people at that scale. Issues that affect constitutional rights, such as voting, reproductive and other health care, gun regulation, a person's rights in a courtroom, perhaps even school regulation and standardized curricula, should be decided at the federal level through the United States Congress, not by individual state legislatures. This isn't the EU, where there are multiple independent nations with their own languages, histories, currencies, even religions, that need to be held together.
There is much to unpack in this essay, but one thing that jumps out at me, despite its not being the emphasis of the article, is the need to re-examine the "States' Rights" doctrine that has caused so much chaos and injustice over our history. We are no longer a fledgling nation trying to pull a unity out of several very independent former colonies, newly referred to as "states." We no longer need, in my opinion, to cater quite so much to the individual needs and prejudices of each of the 50. We fought a Civil War to cement our union. There are local and regional issues that can be left to states to manage, just as there are county and municipal governments within each state that deal with the needs of the people at that scale. Issues that affect constitutional rights, such as voting, reproductive and other health care, gun regulation, a person's rights in a courtroom, perhaps even school regulation and standardized curricula, should be decided at the federal level through the United States Congress, not by individual state legislatures. This isn't the EU, where there are multiple independent nations with their own languages, histories, currencies, even religions, that need to be held together.