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That’s why socialists despise federalism.
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Gary Edwards on 12 Jul 13Socialist despise federalism? I disagree. Socialist love big big and bigger government. To the socialist, "the needs of society trump the rights and liberty of the individual". That's why the HATE the Constitution! The founding documents mark the first time in mankind's recorded history that God given inalienable individual rights and freedoms are the central force and moral imperative driving the institution of government. To the founders, government only exists to protect the inalienable rights and freedoms of the individual. The need for an "ordered society" is exactly to protect individual liberty! The socialist rejects this moral imperative and the ordered society created by the founding documents. They reject the Constitution because it protects and champions individual liberty.
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Gary Edwards on 12 Jul 13Perhaps there is a difference between what the founding fathers meant by Federalism, and what a Socialist means. The founders thought of Federalism as a system of government where governance is balanced and divided three ways: federal government, State government, and individual citizens. The powers and authorities of both federal and State governments were carefully enumerated and limited to only those emumerations. Incredibly, the States voted to ratify the Constitution, thereby creating the Federal government. Including full recognition of the Supremacy Clause and, the 9th and 10th Amendments. And then, they embedded the Constitution in their own State Constitutions. I know of no socialist who accepts the concept of individual liberty trumping or even being equal to either State or Federal government authority. The "Federalism" they accept does not include individual rights and authorities. They also see State government as a subset of Federal government - and not the independent, sovereign governments consenting to the exact, enumerated authorities and powers granted the Federal government through the Constitution. A grant that came from the people, and the States themselves.
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Only centralized, inescapable power will do. Otherwise, citizens can escape from oppressive socialist schemes by moving to a different community, which is relatively easy to do in 21st-century America.
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The Founders were very big on the importance of free people granting, and by extension withdrawing, consent from government.
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