This Part V of “Can the U.S. Unite, if not, How Does it Divide? discusses the options available to states to restrain the continuing amassment of federal power that diminishes the role of states and citizens in the Union. As discussed in Part IV, our Constitution designates state legislatures as the last guardians of the…
This Part IV of “Can the U.S. Unite? If Not, How Does it Divide?” discusses actions taken by states to resist federal diminishment of state sovereignty. For now, it’s a “civil” Civil War, but if the federal government continues to trample on state sovereignty, the conflict could lose its civility. In just eight months Biden…
Part III of the series “Can the U.S Unite? If not, How Does It Divide?” addresses how the federal government, over a century and a half, amassed power by diminishing state sovereignty. It achieved this outcome by systematically manipulating the vagueness of the Constitution to eliminate the few constitutional restraints on its power. Now as…
Part II of this series “Can the U.S Unite? If Not, How Does It Divide?” makes the analogy that States joining the United States check in under the rules of the Hotel California: They can check out anytime they like, but they can never leave. No matter how bad it gets! No matter how much…