Originally Posted by senor rubirosa

That and the rest you posted was quite fascinating, Jason.
By the citizenry, I basically meant the population at large, as reflected through polls that seem to show very strong national support for the death penalty, on the order of 70 percent or higher, with half or more of the population believing the death penalty is not applied frequently enough.
Of course, this varies widely from state to state and region to region.



I wonder if you have an exaggerated sense of the autonomy of the individual states.
Canadian provinces, I am given to understand, have quite a lot more power than American states do.
FWIW, there are four states that are officially commonwealths (Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Massachusetts and Virginia). Does that appelation actually change anything about their powers ... make them in a significant and consistent way different from states that are just 'states'? (This is a serious question ... I have no idea.)
I didn't know they had their own military forces. Are these state militias?



And how, as my pappy might have said.