Quote Originally Posted by palani View Post
Monty

Be aware that the federal government terminated operations with the XIV amendment and went out of business entirely in 1878. While this might be a bitter pill to absorb realize what is fancifully called the federal government is actually a national government with a constitution. That constitution is not the entire federal constitution but merely the 14th amendment. Very few restrictions on anything they want to do.

You should be aware that the Federalist Papers actually gave nationalist notions. This brought about a party who chose to call themselves 'FEDERALISTS'. Actually they were closet NATIONALISTS but they chose the name for a reason. This left their opposition (aka the true FEDERALISTS) a name that was not aligned with their objectives. They chose the name ANTI-FEDERALISTS. My opinion? This opposition party should have called themselves the ANTI-NATIONALISTS.

You don't run a nation with the constitution of a federation. Likewise only a fool would run a federation with the constitution of nation. Therefore the NATION U.S. of A. has a different constitution that the federation U.S. of A. Neither one pays much attention to the limitations of the Articles of Confederation which was the basis of a CONFEDERATION which chose to sink rather than swim when the U.S. Constitution surfaced.
The Constitution for the united States is still in operation. It has to be there as that is the only document that puts a foundation for their claim to power over the district of criminals.