John Quincy Adams and John Calhoun “called it” about thirty five years ahead of time of the first civil war—neither wanted to see it happen, both wanted to figure out a compromise that could work, but both agreed there were major differences that could not be resolved.
There can be no compromise with those who put themselves above the law. With Roe v Wade this began in earnest. Absent the outrage against reason and law and order that was R v W (I am not talking about the subject of the decision, abortion, I’m talking only about the legal justification in the decision) the 9th couldn’t have gone where it has gone ever since and now where it has gone with respect to Exe. Orders, nor could the SCOTUS (see the circle here?) go where they, DOUBTLESS will go, if they don’t try to punt. Wildly convoluted sentences aside we’re back where it all began...