History and Horror of Strong Central Governments
By Rick Pearcey • January 19, 2011, 09:28 AM
In a column titled "Preserving States' Rights and the Constitution," Bruce Walker at American Thinker writes:
It is a grim fact of history that strong central governments have gone hand in hand with horror.
Nazis, very quickly, essentially ended the system of strong state governments in Germany.
The Soviet Union was also ruled with an iron hand from Moscow, and the destruction of whole peoples followed its central policies.
The closer people are to the elected officials governing them, the more freedom flourishes. The more remote the government, the less citizens feel like equals and the more they seem like cattle.
That is why the Founding Fathers considered states' rights as absolutely indispensable to the purposes of our nation.
