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One of the immediate usurptions was abolishing the Constitutional method whereby Senators were elected and replacing it with a system where a FEDERAL ELECTIONS board imposes its regulations on and governs the application and campaigning process for STATE representative offices. Now, if a candidate doesn't get an endorsement from their national party's office (which are controlled by national party leaders), they're slated as damaged goods, unlikely to succeed and, unless they're self-made affluent and wealthy, can hardly meet the boards' petitioning requirements. PLUS, the FedGov recently expanded their control over that "institution" with the braintoot of McCain.

Encroachments would come, not so much from sudden, direct and blatant impositions, but from the subtle deterioration of Americans' Constitutional liberties. Whenever a state enacts the will of its people in opposition to federal mandates, the first thing to occur is threats of federal blackmail and extortion through taxpayer funds and services being withheld. The "state" is then most often condemned and made to look as though it doesn't represent its own populus - as if it were the "bad guy". The central government advocate federals then claim they're in opposition to the state, not the people as a ploy to divide.

Those who believe the federal system listens to and cares for them are living in a fairytale world. It has its own agenda, cowering only to a select affluent segment of the populus whose offspring only serve to perpetuate that control clique. The "of the people, for the people, and by the people" is a farce of the first order meant only to pacify and keep us ignorant in check.

You are of course talking about the method where a state's Senators were elected not by the people of the state but instead by the majority of the politicians of a States assembly or put another way by the party in control of a state.

No wonder democrats were so commited to this idea of returning to a day and age when they could control the country by controlling the states.