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The marijuana Wars - California versus the Feds?

Posted by daddontsk8 on Friday, July 24, 2009 11:43:40 AM
The State of California is the epicenter of the battle between state sovereignty and federal authority, but I think something else is going on here. In the "publicly announced" War on Drugs, the citizens of Oakland, California legitimized the business of selling marijuana through the passage of a measure to tax weed. Yesterday a conglomeration of federal agencies and local and state vassal authorities launched a crackdown on marijuana growers in the Fresno, California area. Operation SOS netted plants valued at $1.2 billion.

Are the federal authorities challenging the will of the people or the sovereignty of the state? Or is something else afoot?
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Representative Democracy in a Small City

Posted by daddontsk8 on Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:15:47 PM
There are two types of elected representation that most effectively will represent citizens in a representative democracy. One method is the American system of single-member districts. The other is proportional representation systems common in Europe. A third type which takes the worst of both systems, is a system of multi-member or at-large districts. The City of Rowlett, Texas has this type of system.

So you might be asking why this type of system is so bad. Let me try to explain through recent history:
 
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