The Problem Is Obvious

<blockquote>States are continuing to see their authority stepped on by the federal government, something that not only curtails their independence in dealing with such matters as elections and education, but in the case of a new national ID card, could cost them financially, according to a new report.<br />n<br />nIn the report released Tuesday, the National Conference of State Legislatures, a bipartisan group meeting in Seattle this week, documents pending legislation that pre-empts state authority, a problem that many say has increased in the past few years.</blockquote><br />n<br />nGuess what, <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20State%20Power">this</a> is what happens when the Constitution is ignored for convenience.<br />n<br />nU.S. Constitution: Tenth Amendment<br />n The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.<br />n<br />n<b>Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. Adlai Stevenson</b><br />n<br />n<br />n<br />