....Peter! You are pretty good at arguing. :-)

>>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.<<

That isn't the point Charles was trying to make. It isn't a matter of citizenship, its a matter of state versus federal law affecting the states that he was pointing to in his analogy. ....and there are already way too many federal mandates that the states have to pass on to their residents. Those residents don't have to be citizens of the country for those mandates to have what the residents might view as having a negative impact on them personally.

Bob :-)