• Tempus Fugit
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    22 hours ago

    If Trump thinks he’s above the Constitution why can’t a state?

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      17 hours ago

      No, there is legal precedence for this

      Under NAFTA states could impose their own tariffs because NAFTA was a Federal agreement and countries would have to negotiate free trade with individual states

      This is just the reverse of that

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        16 hours ago

        As a non-American, the more i learn about US states, the more I realise that the country is more like a reluctant confederation than an actual unified country.

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          14 hours ago

          Yeah, it made sense when a horse was the fastest way to travel over land. These days? We’re stuck with a ridiculous government structure designed when no one knew how democracies worked.

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            12 hours ago

            Amen to that. It’s very stupid and backwards, but a whole lotta idiots think that the founders were inspired by their god (Jehovah/Yahweh/Allah) and that this kind of thing was handed down on stone tablets.

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          It tore itself apart in a civil war 72 years after its constitution was written, and the only reason why it didn’t happen again was because it got fat off of being the only power left standing after the world wars.

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        16 hours ago

        The whole “no legal precedence”. Has been a thing for a few years now. We have what used to be called chaos nowadays.