There's presumably some far more appropriate place for this, but it's _your_ cypherpunks listserver :-) At 07:04 PM 9/12/97 -0500, Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com> wrote:
If the Libertarians are so gung-ho on avoiding governmental (especialy federal) intervention in their lives why do they support the 14th Amendment?
Libertarians are generally very strong in insisting that the governments should respect the rights of their citizens, and as the 14th forces the Bill of Rights on the states, it adds some value. There's by no means agreement that the 14th is good, or that the States are or are not better at things than the Feds (it's pretty much agreed that it's easier for the States to do Bad Things, but that it's less dangerous when they do it than when the Feds do, since it's easier to leave a State.) Heck, many of us think that Lincoln was wrong in reconquering the South, though many of us also think that they seceeded for bad motives.
Why do they further not ask why the 9th and 10th are not fully respected and used by both the legislative and judicial branches of the federal government?
You haven't heard Libs rant for the 9th and 10th? You've obviously been tuning out :-) Must not have the patience ....
clear that the founding fathers wanted the situation in the several states to be quite dynamic and diverse, otherwise why "Congress shall make no law..." and not something more comprehensive preventing the states from such laws as well?
It's extremely clear that the Founding Finaglers had widely diverse opinions, some of which wanted central control and fiat currencies, others rabidly decentralist. Go read the Anti-Federalist Papers. And then, of course, go read the Federalist papers, and realize these were the more pro-big-government side of the bunch that overthrew their previous government.