However, they also have to keep some AC capacity on the line, since that is more useful for local purposes.
For example, the Netherlands is proposing new national legislation that would enable the designation of non-EU settlement systems for local purposes.
As James Madison wrote in The Federalist Papers, complete federal authority at the seat of government was an "indispensable necessity" but "a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them".
State legislatures may not only exercise their sovereignty directly, but may delegate such portions of it to inferior legislative bodies as, in their judgment, is desirable for local purposes.
In pledging not to let individual lawmakers designate federal money for local purposes, the anti-earmark contingent is in effect ceding more power to the executive branch over how taxpayer dollars are spent, presumably not the outcome desired by the new crop of grass-roots conservatives.
The possible importance of reserving to the state jurisdiction for local purposes which involve no interference with the performance of governmental functions is becoming more and more clear as the activities of the government expand and large areas within the states are acquired.
Lina Bo Bardi, an Italian-born architect with an uncommon commitment to building for society's needs, was just getting her practice started when Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer began to adapt international modernism for local purposes.
But in Kelo v. New London, the Supreme Court was dealing with state and local use of eminent domain for local purposes -- and narrowly defined geographical areas.
But what good is a "municipal legislature for local purposes" if the Congress insists on reviewing and countermanding the actions of that legislature and doing so without even allowing local residents a vote?
