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Everything you said is correct except for the federalist style. That changed after the civil war. They specifically wanted states to have power. Many argue that change is why we are here today.
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Not true. The Confederates literally fought for states rights and lost. That’s where they got their name. I mean obviously there’s more to it than that. They wanted to secede from the nation in order to create a confederate style government. But the federal government, i.e the union won the war and The way we operate governmentally has not changed much since. To this day the federal government is still more powerful than the states
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
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