>>291290
>if judges can just make laws on the fly then nothing is truly legal and everyone is at their mercy
GOOD. I want communists here in Texas to live in fear of an official, elected by the population who hates communists, denying them due process and getting them the fuck out of our lives. And since judge are elected officials, if they do the opposite of that, they just get replaced with somebody who will do what's right.
>they could have, they chose not to.
KEK. They couldn't slam the boot down on a hundred farmers in Nevada, all flagrantly violating many federal laws, but they somehow "could have" brought the boot down on over 5 million people nestled between multiple ranges of nature's fortresses? Lol. Lmao even.
>what does that mean?
It has two meanings. In Westphalian philosophy, it refers to what you're talking about: a supreme national government that is the highest governing body. In America, it means that the state has the plenary power to set its own policies on everything except for international diplomacy and national defense. States even have the right to issue their own currency still. The only thing they can't do is negotiate with other countries or sesneed, which we shouldn't be doing anyway, because that would just be ceding the other 49 states to our enemies.
>voluntary union
That's the thing about common law though. It gives us the ability to review this without having to get congress involved. The Supreme Court decision that clarified that a state does not have the right to secede after it has joined can be reviewed at any time.
The United States is the most highly devolved system of governance in human history. It is barely even a federal system, as the federal government has very, very few plenary powers. It's damn near a confederation. But this system is the best possible compromise between the two options. You would know that if you weren't proud of being ignorant about your own country's history, and had read both the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers.
>americans are fat
Yes, and so are the citizens of all the other white countries. Australia and New Zealand are 6% less fat than us. The UK is 8% less fat. There are 5 American states where the obesity rate is lower than any of the constituent countries of the UK and member states of Australia. Being fat isn't subhuman. It's just an unfortunate result of the nearly unavoidable aspects of modern life. I used to be a fatass. The only reason I'm not anymore is because 2020 gave me the chance to spend several months just focusing on my health.