This article is wrong. Giving room to more regional cultural differences is why we have states. People who want to be insane can live in Oregon and California while sane people can live in Texas or some such. The problem is trying to make the US a global power requires a conformity of effort if not a uniformity of will. Stop trying to run the world, give power back to the states, guarantee them a Republican form of government[ without fraud and without redistribution of wealth from producers to communists], close the border and expel the invaders and we the People can start to fix our own problems.
The premise is… should there be something restraining California from mass extermination of people who aren’t letting their kids be subject to pornography in elementary school.
There is definitely a role for The Constitution. To say the states are the ultimate authority is a frightening and deadly concept.
States are not democracies. They are mobocracies being ruled by population dense cities like NYC and San Fran. These cities drive representation at the federal level, policies and laws.
If you want this type of rule, please do allow unrestrained state administration.
The constitution is not about rights, it is about restrains and is our only protection from mobocracies. Essentially mobocracies from rat infested metropolitan areas.