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Old 04-17-2009, 11:39 AM   #331 (permalink)
dksuddeth
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Originally Posted by Derwood View Post
if you radically reduce federal government, what's to keep the individual state governments from becoming tyrannical?
I believe that part of the constitution requires the federal government to ensure that each state is a republic, right? or are you saying that we need a huge federal government because states can't be trusted to abide by their own state constitutions?
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