laboratoriesofdemocracy: Laboratories of Democracy - 03/15/21 03:01 PM
 
In 1787, the founding fathers gathered in Philadelphia to fix the weak Articles of Confederation, and wound up adopting the first written national constitution on earth. ("A republic, if you can keep it," Ben Franklin said. The jury's still out.) The framers sought to achieve a perfect balance of power between federal and state governments. Among other roles, the states would become "laboratories of democracy," free to experiment with different policies to see which worked best. We see that today with states' varying approaches to lockdowns and masking to defeat Covid.
Now those federal and state laboratories are all looking for revenue … (0 comments)