I had a thought the other day in relation to how impossible it is for a large country to make everyone happy with broad policies. There are big differences in opinions, values, economics, and cultures across a population. What one city, county, province, etc prefers for policy seems to be universally be overridden by “higher level” governance levels going to the top if they so choose. Are there any countries where lower level, more specific jurisdictions get to set policy overrides instead of vice versa? Like, a place where nationwide laws are defaults, but smaller hierarchies can pass laws to supercede the higher defaults?
If a law can be ignored, its merely a suggestion. If a sub-national jurisdiction could just overrule the national government, then the sub-national government is essentially a sovereign nation.
Think of like the UN and “International Laws”, everyone just ignores those. Anything passed by the UN doesn’t matter. Russia continue to invade Ukraine; Israel continues to genocide Gaza; “UN Resolutions” are just “Strongly Worded Letters”