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From: [e-mail] (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: austin.talk
Subject: Re: States Rights
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Date: 19 Nov 92 13:53:07 GMT
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Reply-To: [e-mail] (John F. Haugh II)
Organization: Los Tejanos SCUBA Club and Beer Joint, Austin, Tejas
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Curt Finch 903 2F021 [e-mail] 512-838-2806) writes:
>[e-mail] (Alan R. Weiss) writes:
>
>>If the State of Texas chooses to violate my rights,
>>or if the US government does it, to me the interface is the same:
>>I lose.  The *only* advantage is theoretical:  by moving power
>>"down" the hierarchy, you move it closer to the people, and ostensibly
>
>That is not the only advantage.  The primary advantage is that if Texas
>has laws which you disagree with, you can still stay in the U.S, but in
>another state, to avoid them.
>
>In other words, a weak central government sets up states in competition
>with each other for who has the least oppression, the lowest taxes, and
>the highest standard of living.

This is worth elaborating on - how many of you have forgotten that
Maryland was essentially a Catholic colony?  While many of you might
think that having a state dedicated to a particular religious ideaology
is a bad idea, for the Catholics who were fleeing religious oppression
in other countries, Maryland was Paradise.
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