[Amendment10]

"Then it's obvious that they couldn't have been trusted to elect senators."

I regard the states losing their sovereign identity to the federal government to be a consequence of post Civil War traumatic “amnesia.”

[familyop]

"I regard the states losing their sovereign identity to the federal government to be a consequence of post Civil War traumatic 'amnesia.'"

I'm not saying that states should be powerless, but we do have a problem with moral decline in every level of government, business and academia. Shoot, there was a time when communities, with the laws of states, would whip immoral troublemakers and send them back to Pennsylvania. ;-)