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Cultural Federalism
Topic Started: Jun 1 2006, 04:47 AM (71 Views)
cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Living With Cultural Federalism
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Next week, in what is fast becoming an election-time ritual, the Senate will take up debate of a constitutional amendment to define marriage in the United States as between one man and one woman (no dogs allowed). And, just as predictably, the amendment will fail by a wide margin to garner the necessary two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress.

Thus will Americans continue a great experiment in what has been called "cultural federalism."

Neither party has much in the way of a genuine commitment to the principle of federalism - the idea that many policy decisions are best left to state and local governments - in either economic or social affairs. But in a nation increasingly polarized by hot-button cultural questions, both parties would do well to recognize that in our democracy, living together is often a matter of learning to live apart.



The federal government (if any government) has no business interfering in personal lives this way. Don't our representatives have more important things to do?
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
--Barry Goldwater
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