A lot of folks smarter than me don't agree that the whole package of silly was contained in the 14th Amendment, partly because if facially was about "servitude" and nothing else. But on a more practical note, none of that Brennan cr@p happened in 1868, or 1878, or . . . because it would have made no sense to anyone. It happened when it did—I guess it began with Frankfurter—because it was connected to the world socialist movement that was being spread about in the 1890s and following. So screw it. It had nothing to do with the Constitution, before or after 1868.
This may be where the money and guns come in. But the point is, they're going to come in one way or the other. When you fold your cards on subsidiarity (States' Rights being an example), you have tyranny. That's not a goal. That's an obstacle.
The argument could be made for the 20th Century, but that would be Taft in 1925, holding that states were bound by the Constitution as much as the Feds were. Once that happened, the 10th Amendment became largely moot, and states’ rights were killed for good.