I think the biggest problem is that it allows the states too much latitude in formulating their own laws and policies. This was appropriate for a very young America, which had a small, culturally and ethnically uniform population, occupied a relatively small geographic area, and where, for the most part, the states were on the same page…
I think the biggest problem is that it allows the states too much latitude in formulating their own laws and policies. This was appropriate for a very young America, which had a small, culturally and ethnically uniform population, occupied a relatively small geographic area, and where, for the most part, the states were on the same page politically. Now that the United States is a huge, multicultural, ethnically diverse conglomeration of 50 individual states, each of which with its own views on critical issues like reproductive rights, voting rights, housing, access to health care, and the provision of a welfare infrastructure, the original constitutional concept has become all but unworkable. (Look what's happened with abortion legislation in Texas, for example.)
And the Republicans argue for more States' rights whereas the Democrats argue for more Federal control. A perfect example is where President Biden instituted mask mandates which infuriated the Republicans. They prevailed upon the courts who in some cases overturned the mandates. I don't have the specifics on why they overturned the mandates. I don't see where this is the fault of the Constitution but the interpretation.
It's hard to misinterpret the 10th Amendment "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States are reserved to the States, and to the people." In my way of thinking, this gives the states an INCREDIBLE amount of latitude - a degree of latitude which is literally tearing the US apart.
I think the biggest problem is that it allows the states too much latitude in formulating their own laws and policies. This was appropriate for a very young America, which had a small, culturally and ethnically uniform population, occupied a relatively small geographic area, and where, for the most part, the states were on the same page politically. Now that the United States is a huge, multicultural, ethnically diverse conglomeration of 50 individual states, each of which with its own views on critical issues like reproductive rights, voting rights, housing, access to health care, and the provision of a welfare infrastructure, the original constitutional concept has become all but unworkable. (Look what's happened with abortion legislation in Texas, for example.)
And the Republicans argue for more States' rights whereas the Democrats argue for more Federal control. A perfect example is where President Biden instituted mask mandates which infuriated the Republicans. They prevailed upon the courts who in some cases overturned the mandates. I don't have the specifics on why they overturned the mandates. I don't see where this is the fault of the Constitution but the interpretation.
It's hard to misinterpret the 10th Amendment "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States are reserved to the States, and to the people." In my way of thinking, this gives the states an INCREDIBLE amount of latitude - a degree of latitude which is literally tearing the US apart.