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Donald Trump vs. Madison, Hamilton, and the Constitution
Leaders or a liege?
Governors take the high ground
The governors of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Rhode Island recently joined together to form a healthcare recovery working group to consider and develop plans to begin bringing their individual states and the multi-state region out from under the coronavirus’s cloak of darkness.
I listened in on their joint announcement, hosted by Governor Cuomo, and what I heard were state leaders who acted, well, leaderly, with compassion, mutual respect, and intelligence.
In much the same manner, the governors of the West Coast states of California, Oregon, and Washington have also linked borders to develop practical guidelines for bringing their interconnected economies out of isolation. These bi-partisan alliances speak to the inherent powers of the states to determine their own futures, respecting, as they do, the role that can be played by the federal government.
Trump takes the low road
President Trump challenged these state coalitions by making it clear on Monday that the federal government…
