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If you want to see what the founders thought of the federal system, you may want to look up: The Preamble to the Bill of Rights to see what the purpose of the Constitution and Bill of Rights was. It is an interesting read, because it is never included with the Bill of Rights, any more.
BTW, Lincoln is the one who ultimately killed the idea of the states being the ultimate power in the federation. Although, people are now coming around to understand it a bit better.
I forget what they are called but the writings of the signers debating the Constitution are also helpful in understanding what they thought the document meant. Before I discovered all this sort of stuff I used to waste time arguing with people about the Constitution. I learned that people do not care. Its just a dumb thing they can say to "support" their desired outcome. No one cares about the Constitution. Winning is all they care about.
This is what conservatives used to do. I don't think they fall into this trap as much anymore but back in the hey day of Rush Limbaugh when I was a kid it was all about the Constitution and the left didn't give a flip.
Trump has kinda ripped to veil off and exposed the clear struggle for power and influence. It was always there but less obvious.
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It (the power struggle) is still there and working as hard as ever. The lust for power by the power junkies is so powerful that they will do anything possible to keep it. This is why we have so many motherWEFers willing to sell out for the chance to be powerful and get the money and pelf. I don’t think that there is any way to stop it besides crushing the state as a vehicle for this behavior.
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