Palpatine in '08

[--Pete]

Hi,

Just pointing out that there is another level of power dynamics to the story, beyond just the power-grubbing federal government infringing on state sovereignty.

Yes. Over the course of my life, I've read well over a thousand pages just on the causes of the American Civil War. But I thought that regurgitating all that would be a little much for a post, even on Lurker's. Especially since the topic was the history of the difference between federal and state laws. In addition to slavery, I left out a whole bunch about foreign relations, import and export restrictions, the development of the industrial revolution, the effects of mechanization on an agrarian society, the conflicts of regional religion, methods of assessments for taxation, the incorporation of a huge influx of immigrants, nepotism at the federal level, the consequences to the land of cotton as the primary cash crop, the economics of slavery as opposed to migrant workers, etc. Find me a publisher and I might write you a book;)

--Pete