[Timber Loftis]

Yeah, splitting the atom of sovereignty has never been done before. [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img]

To clarify:

[T]he Framers rejected the concept of a central government that would act upon and through the States, and instead designed a system in which the state and federal governments would exercise concurrent authority over the people -- who were, in Hamilton's words, "the only proper objects of government." Printz , 521 U.S. at 919 -20 (quoting The Federalist No. 15); see also Alden v. Maine , 119 S. Ct. 2240, 2265 (1999) ("By splitting the atom of sovereignty, the founders established two orders of government, each with its own direct relationship, its own privity, its own set of mutual rights and obligations to the people who sustain it and are governed by it" (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)).

http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/4th/991055P.html

[ 04-06-2005, 02:21 PM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]