The supreme court, of the corporate United states, hands down New State Ice v. Liebmann: the states—via the fraudulent 14th amendment—may not impose licensing requirements for businesses to engage in intrastate commerce.  In rendering this decision, the court totally ignored the oklahoma constitution, article II, sections 2, 7 and 15.  In a dissenting opinion, associate justice Louis D. Brandeis writes,

       It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

       NOTE: Although Brandeis uses the word “country” here, the editors believe that he meant to use the word “Union,” which is a union of sovereign States under a federal system, with a central government whose powers are strictly limited by a respected Constitution; as opposed to “nation,” in which a central government, with almost limitless power, treats its constituent states as mere enclaves, provinces, or sub-divisions of its greater self.

       [updated 4/19/2025] Thanks to Jim Lorenz, Chuck McGlawn and Bill Holmes for this entry.