On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho measure.
The idea of States and federal governments make no sense to me. Same country but different set of laws? Why even form a country?
The United States formed as a group of semi-sovereign political entities that wanted to make their own laws, but needed a common defense, foreign, and trade policy to prevent recolonization.
The founding fathers knew that the country wouldn’t agree on everything, so they set up a system where a lot of decisions would be made by more local officials.
Other federations work on the same principle. It is a lot easier to get political consensus in a smaller group than a larger one, so a lot of decisions are pushed to more local entities.
Look at lemmy. Same country, different laws per instance and different laws in the communities.
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I don’t understand what the country is in your analogy
The country is Lemmy the software itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism?wprov=sfla1
States are the test tubes of government ideas.