To be um...fair? (ick) to Palin, the term federalism does (or did, since a lot of these definitions have become meaningless) basically mean the concept that yeah, there's the federal government that does stuff, but almost equal to them are the state gov'ts who create law based on the needs/wants of the state. So that's probably what she meant. Both the Federalist and anti-Federalist papers talk about this.
Actually, I'm probably giving her too much credit. Is it wrong that I bet she's never read either of the aforementioned texts, and that I also bet Obama HAS (since he's all "intellectual" and all) and that the fact that he has read them is kind of swoonworthy?
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Date: 2008-10-02 12:46 pm (UTC)To be um...fair? (ick) to Palin, the term federalism does (or did, since a lot of these definitions have become meaningless) basically mean the concept that yeah, there's the federal government that does stuff, but almost equal to them are the state gov'ts who create law based on the needs/wants of the state. So that's probably what she meant. Both the Federalist and anti-Federalist papers talk about this.
Actually, I'm probably giving her too much credit. Is it wrong that I bet she's never read either of the aforementioned texts, and that I also bet Obama HAS (since he's all "intellectual" and all) and that the fact that he has read them is kind of swoonworthy?