That directly conflicts with our founders and many scholarly debates on the topic. For example, claiming interstate commerce clause, giving the powers it does today is as intended, simply does not hold water.
Exactly. And in the treaty of Paris they call the colonies “13 sovereign nations.” We started out as a confederate system, but Alexander Hamilton and a few others argued for federalism and it caught on. A confederate system makes more sense legally and practically. But unfortunately federal law is the law of the whole land. Obviously states are afforded powers to make laws and to do many other things within the state, but technically a state law cannot directly conflict with federal law or federal law trumps it
I suspect we are loosely saying the same thing but though a different lens.
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