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Podcast: PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash
Episode: 280 Parochial Control
Description: Most Americans do not like to give up their autonomy, the power to make their own decisions based on their personal set of values. When this country was founded, the 13 states united primarily to act in concert during their rebellion from Britain. The arguments for State’s Rights were measured against the strength achieved by subservience to a central uniting power. Though the U.S. Constitution is a marvelous piece of negotiation, it was really that the time and the place in history were just right for the creation of a new kind of political entity: the federal government is...