What if the number of amendments is re-counted every time an amendment is rescinded?
I think we're talking past each other here. I'm saying that ideally, Congress and the President are all the elected officials we'd need. We wouldn't need state congresspeople.
I have a feeling that calling my congressman to complain about the street light not being replaced or garbage not being picked up will not be his highest priorities. I'm all for local elected officials.
You wouldn't need an elected official for that. You would just call the local street department or sanitation department or what have you and find out what the problem is. In Ideal World, which as we have all agreed we are not yet occupying.
Not sure how much of an affect this will have since everybody ignores it anyway.
I don't think that giving the states rights was a bad idea, I'm not a fascist, but I do think that a lot of governors and law-maker use that amendment to give the states a little too much say in what the law looks like, when the decisions should really be made by congress.