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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.
We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.
If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states are going to take matters into their own hands.
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