There have been many points of conflict between state governments and the federal government, but the chief one recently is that of abortion.
Given the US’s current dominance as a nation, and its exceptionally healthy self-image, it’s a bit of a surprise to read that initially the whole exercise was a total disaster.
Everything was such an obvious failure that Alexander Hamilton held the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention in 1787, during which everyone agreed that the Articles of Confederation were a terrible idea and scrapped them in favour of a model where the federal government had greater powers to rein in the local big wig — rich people who dominated individual state politics making short-term, self-serving political decisions that had led to the fiasco they then found themselves in.
The reason for this seems to be that because they were relatively small, the individual states soon came under the control of local oligarchs who were quite keen on two things: 1) paying virtually no tax; 2) treating other people as badly as they wanted to. This is why the main causes of conflict around state’s rights have always been federal income tax, and the way women and people of colour are treated.
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