Callejero

We have finally learned from the animal kingdom. People of one inclination and those of another do not live in the same city-state. Rather, they each have their own geographic area, free, for the most part, from federal and state mandates.

An individual is able to move from one city-state to another if his ideology fits in. Law-abiding visitors, however, are always welcome--no matter how they differ. They receive, by federal law, the utmost protection, the kind afforded a diplomat. There is one city-state somewhere that has people who drink, smoke pot, and do not believe in incarcerating rapists, thieves, and scofflaws. Instead, they castrate rapists, tag thieves, and make the scofflaw put money in escrow for future transgressions. Another allows its citizens to hire mercenaries to go to war in place of their own sons and daughters. This is their choice and no one can tell them otherwise.

The federal government ensures our common defense, our libertarian blessings, and some services that a single city-state cannot handle by itself: disaster recovery, garbage disposal, etc. When a crime is committed by a citizen of a different city-state, federal law takes precedence.