I’m a little confused about what states in US are. Are they more like their own countries united in alliance, or are they districts of one country?
While I’m not a political scholar to understand the limits of their power, their leaders can certainly express their own stances.
And like most things in the US, some states have more money, power, and influence than others. It’s complicated.
That’s an interesting question of Federalism, that I would argue, even the courts can’t answer. The violence of the civil war effectively answered that question: No. However, it was purely the force of violence that made that assertion. And it will be again.
The American Civil War was fought over slavery, not independence in terms of foreign policy.
Yes, and a counter to the argument that the Union was inviolable versus states joining voluntarily. It might be convenient to only look at one aspect of a matter, but that only holds so long as the view agrees with the outcome you would like to happen.
The arguments around states, federalism, The Union (it wasn’t called the union for no reason): they matter. And it might be that you might find a limited interpretation around what actually happened during that time inconvenient in the future.
Why were the slave-owning states the only ones “rising concerns” around “federalism”? A curious coincidence indeed
Because they wanted to leave the union so they could carry on being slaving assholes.
Your point is obvious and dumb
I think you might be defending a guy purposefully obfuscating the issue. Yes, my point is obvious and mocking, that’s generally how sarcasm works.
I’m a little confused about what states in US are. Are they more like their own countries united in alliance, or are they districts of one country?
They’re closer to districts, but with more constitutionally described rights. Definitely much more independent than French provinces, and even more than German states or UK constituent countries (devolution is at Parliament’s discretion, for instance), but much, much less than EU countries.
States are explicitly prohibited by the Constitution from “enter[ing] into any treaty, alliance, or confederation” with foreign states, but there are plenty of cases of state and local governments joining economic partnerships and initiatives.
