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Bill of Rights: Antifederalist wants educated debate
| But wouldn't you say that the federal government is, for the most part, powerful in name only...? Federal law may trump State law, but only when it's enforced, which is why states tend to get away with their own legislation all the time.
| I've never thought about but I guess I'm not opposed to state powered government. If states became too different in laws we may have effectively turned 1 country of 50 states into 50 individual countries that could be very hectic.
| If the federal gov. not powerful, then why are there so very many government agencies? Also, to take a current hot topic, why is health care mandatory? The government that is set up in US was designed to protect our rights. Health is a responsibility, not a right. That is one of the resulting problems with numerating rights, as the bill of rights did.
| *gov. is not...
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| Prior to the Bill of Rights, the vast majority of states already had in place a constitution that already already had their own "bill of rights". Thus, the ten amendments where redundant, and transferred power from State to Federal, making it easier for person or group be tyrannic. As Paine said, the goal of a government is to serve it's people. A centralized government will not serve as well as a State based government. Please be civil and educated in replies. ~WhiteRaven