FillyofDelphi
Banned
The states are also subordinate to the Federal Government. Besides that rule is valid only "by consent of the governed" , the main argument, applies to counties as well. State borders are as arbitrary as county ones after all.
Subordinate to, not mere appendages of. If I may draw an analogy (granted, this was alot more solid an arguement in the legal theory of the 19th century, before the strengthening of the Federal and weakening of State authority as power has been transfered upward. And I'm not saying I agree with it; just that it was a commonly held legal principal at the time), its the difference between the relationship between me and my employer and me and my arm. In both cases the later does what the former wants, but the limits of that power and the reasoning/relationship between the two things is entirely different.