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While it annoys me that my state is affected by rules CA imposes, I have a higher value for States rights and a lesser value for Federal rights. The whole point of "The United States of America" is that they are a collection of experimental states protected (and weakly regulated) by a unifying governing body.
States should be able to do whatever they want so long as they don't violate certain basic human rights, or unduly harm shared resources such as the environment and air. The federal government needs to be 10% of it's current size as they have far overstepped their purpose. Their job is to provide defense for the member states, ensure civil rights are not violated, set certain environmental standards, negotiate foreign relations, and little else.
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