Yes, but if a State gets too abausive its citizens can just move to another state (wihch many blacks did after the Civil War and during the Jim Crow era.) When the Fed gets too abusive you're stuck and out of luck.
Unbelievable.
It seems to me that the War of Northern Agression, in the larger sense, achieved in dissolving the very thing the constitution largely set out to define, that being that our freedoms a duely derived from God, and those rights, once ursurped from the people, then dismantled the rights the people granted the states. The ancillary changes of emancipation proclaimaition, though desirable and a good outflow of the conflict, were well on their way to being constitutionally recognized, as this concern against slavery had gone on since long before we fought the war of independence. Federalism continues as a juggarnaut against those freedoms which only God can give or take. Those given to the individual can be taken by force and that is what the federal government is...It is raw force, becoming more and more unrestrained. Starie decisis is one of our biggest enemies. Our congressional leaders need to represent the people.