11-08-2018, 07:36 PM
Some countries have divided themselves into equal subdivisions in which there are large cities or urban areas as subdivisions and other areas being divided as larger territories. So suppose that you have the states of Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Kentucky, which have large urban areas crossing state lines. Urban areas including Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Columbus are all each within their respective states. But Greater Cincinnati, Chicago, Louisville, St. Louis, and Omaha obviously cross state lines. (South Bend and Toledo have slight spill-overs into Michigan, but adjusting for such would be nearly trivial).
But such a scheme involves realigning state boundaries so much that the federal basis of government would be so altered that we would not have the same country.
But such a scheme involves realigning state boundaries so much that the federal basis of government would be so altered that we would not have the same country.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.