Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND
There are many issues that transcend state borders, fish migrations for instance are coastwide, not local for many species. Rhode Island or Massachusetts can not make or enforce rules on MD to limit impacts to Striped Bass, even if it impacts recreational and commercial fishermen in their state.
All issues eventually center around people, whether it is individual to individual, state to state, or federal government vis a vis all the people. Self governing people reasonably come to mutually satisfying agreements. Federal "people" forcing people of one state to please the people of another state weakens, even partially destroys, the element of self governance so essential to our republic.
Representatives from MA and RI can reasonably come to a mutual agreement on the impacts of their rules on Striped Bass. By discussing and negotiating, they may even discover impacts that neither, on their own, would have realized. That is, essentially, a democratic solution, rather than the dictatorial decree of some distant unelected central power. But, as do all modern authoritarian, socialistic countries which have instituted the vote and elections, we use the label "democracy," or "our democracy," as a cover for dictatorial regulations such as our federal agencies create.
Similarly, air pollution or water pollution is often not a local issue, see the Mercury issues from the Midwest traveling east or downstream impacts on rivers. The CT River starts in northernmost New England, with a watershed that ticks into Canada. Connecticut cannot make rules on Vermont or New Hampshire.
Issues of water ways downstream rights have long been understood in English Common Law and in the laws of nations derived from the British Empire to comport with Riparian Water Rights. Pollution of water ways that continue into other jurisdictions can be sued in the Courts.
Some issues are federal and need federal agencies to deal with it. That damn liberal commie hippy Nixon even knew that much....
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