me: can I really get an entire panel of material out of Fallout's pre-Great War governance issues? seems like kind of a stretch

(me, an hour of wiki-diving later): ok so how do I condense this into less than a day long seminar

there is!! so much!! And I've got like 15 minutes to talk!!

The most confounding thing remains the Commonwealth system, which didn't actually condense the states (the states remained as-is) but introduced a layer of regional governance between state and federal

In the Fallout universe this occurred in 1969 (the Fallout timeline diverges from our own ~1945) and I'm struggling with whether this requires a constitutional amendment or whether it's more of an interstate compact thing or whether each Commonwealth was essentially a fed agency?

I mean it's pretty clear that most of the major governance functions of the states had shifted to the Commonwealth level by 2077. People were legit surprised when FO4 (and I think New Vegas maybe?) were like "no, actually, states still existed"

Someone give me a platform to do a whole seminar on "fallout, the Great War, and the law" and I will do it. I will do it so much.

Alternately, if anyone wants to do a group blog on this, I'm also down. There's something for everyone! labor law! Enviro! Privacy! 2A!