You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.
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A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.
As a kid who grew up in Montana, I resent regulation being formulated and forced in Washington from bureaucrats that have never been to Montana.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing.
If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.
You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.
The regulations keep on coming. And we are trying to make decisions that we will be happy with for decades.
I just think it gets confusing for our communities when the federal law is different from the state law.
Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.
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