>>>>This issue reminds of Federal vs. States rights. Our forefathers had enough insight to understand that the states need control over local issues, that it is not possible for the federal government to have a single set of laws for the entire country that would work. That is one of the reasons our government has survived for so long. CC>CC has to understand that the local chapters also need to be able to have control over local issued that effect them.

The difference is that the States which formed the original Union existed prior to the formation of the Union and were integral in the formation of the Union.

Of course I'm not aware of any way for a person to be a citizen of a State and not the of the Country as well.