At 03:57 PM 3/1/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>I would actually point out that _none_ of this
>necessarily has to be hypocrisy. The concept of
>"state's rights" to me is not that _all things_ are
>best determined at the state level, but that some
>things are. Since the overwhelming trend since the
>Second World War has been the willy-nilly
>federalization of every conceivable issue, state's
>rights proponents have often been seen as favoring
>states over the federal government in all things and,
>when they fail to do so, as people who are acting
>hypocritically. That's not necessarily fair, however.
Thank you.
I am not normally given to me-too posting, but the meme Gautam is
responding to here drives me absolutely batty.
For example, believing in smaller government doesn't mean supporting
smaller government in all things.... that's anarchy, or at least
libertarianism. Likewise, just because I support State's Rights doesn't
mean that I support the right of each State to decide whether or not human
life begins at conception or after the child speaks its first complete
sentence.
JDG
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