When will many conservative realize this isn't 19th century anymore and get over their love affair over states rights? Having 50 different states with all kinds of different rules and regulations may have made sense back then, but these days of vast and fast travel, and much more complicated industries, it would be a clusterfuck having states rule everything by themselves. Hardly a united country. And certain things its just not feasible to have each state make their own rules and regulations.
Plus its happened already and the federal gov't has been strong for so long now. Stop kicking and screaming and try to make it work for once. Get over the pipe dream and ideology, its the way it is now, regardless of what you think the framers wanted.
The constitution strictly says that states have most of the power in this governmental system. You are free to alter the constitution with amendments giving the federal government more power but until then your way of thinking is nothing more than a pipedream.
NO need to. Maybe the whiny conservatives can change the constitution every time the federal gov't does something and they cry its unconstitutional, yet it never is ruled so.
Most of FDR's New Deal was ruled unconstitutional. FDR was the President, more than any other, who dismantled the States Rights bulwark.
He loaded the court, increased the number of justices so his justices could win votes. This was a slimy period in our history. He had very certain ideas and the results were a prolonged Depression and the Iron Curtain.