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RETRO EVOLUTION |
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Devolution - the solution to evolutionary dead-ends: |
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For any State unilaterally to legally appoint its Senators, replace |
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central government programs with its own, and relegate the ultimate |
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Court of Appeals to an arbitration service with no need for further |
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Amendments or Conventions, pursuant to Art. VII of the Constitution; |
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and inspired by Jefferson, whose attachment to the theory of state |
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sovereignty and skepticism toward the Constitution isn't surprising, |
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considering his opposition to the strong federal government that it |
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enables. In fact, Madison, his closest political ally through much |
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of his career, led by example in restraining Jefferson's more anti- |
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Constitutional rhetoric. However, as Jefferson aged, and especially |
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near the end of his life, his position hardened on nullification, |
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writing privately that the time might come when the southern states |
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would have no choice but to use nullification against the growing |
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power of the federal government or to even dissolve the Union. The |
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presentation here proposes devolution as a viable alternative to |
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nullification, which Jefferson or the South might have thought of, |
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had they been strict constructionists of Article VII that allows |
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for States of the Union not to be States of a compact in which the |
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United States is defined as the trustee vis-a-vis THE United States |
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of America--"the Union" as defined in the Articles of Confederation |
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& Perpetual Union. |
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