“States cannot say no to a federal mandate,” Roosevelt wrote. “Any state law or constitutional provision that conflicts with a federal law is void.”
The Founders, whose fathers and grandfathers were all too familiar with over reaching central government, would never have intended the above.
Perhaps the forgotten components in this debate is the ‘consent of the governed’ and the prerogative of the people to start a fresh. It seems the lawyers and pols have forgotten these things or more likely would rather ignore them.
Well they not only did not intend it, they stated it in Article I Section 8 which limited Congress to enumerated powers.