[jfengel]

It illustrates the way the "leave it up to the states" argument grates on some ears. It's a slippery slope argument, which is not automatically faulty. It is a call to know how you expect things to not slide down.

If the suggestion is "anything shy of complete chattel slavery", people get worried.

[IncreasePosts]

Why have states at all then? Why not just one giant national government?

[SpaceNugget]

Why have a federal government at all if states are perfectly well suited to all forms of human rights oversight, lawmaking, etc?

[int_19h]

Collective defense?

[Uvix]

The US has been that since 1861.