> > the purpose of government is to promote the general welfare
> That's not even true. Are you talking about the declaration of independence instead?
It's in the preamble to the constitution.
> The thing you don't see I think is that there is power in numbers.
Yes, that's exactly it. The power should be in numbers not in the arrangement of those numbers across arbitrarily defined geographical regions.
> Utah for example is full of Mormons, if it was split up, they will be less united and less able to get their mormon stuff encoded in the law.
But is it good that they are able to get their stuff encoded in law? What if there is some other group that is already split up and can't get their stuff encoded into law because they happen to not be aligned with state boundaries? My point is that things should happen to the extent that individual humans want them, not to the extent that political fictions like states or counties "want" them.
> That's not even true. Are you talking about the declaration of independence instead?
It's in the preamble to the constitution.
> The thing you don't see I think is that there is power in numbers.
Yes, that's exactly it. The power should be in numbers not in the arrangement of those numbers across arbitrarily defined geographical regions.
> Utah for example is full of Mormons, if it was split up, they will be less united and less able to get their mormon stuff encoded in the law.
But is it good that they are able to get their stuff encoded in law? What if there is some other group that is already split up and can't get their stuff encoded into law because they happen to not be aligned with state boundaries? My point is that things should happen to the extent that individual humans want them, not to the extent that political fictions like states or counties "want" them.