[ForGod'sSake]

Excuse me?

Give the guy a break. He's a Dim shill; he doesn't have to make sense.

...after reading the Scalia opinion today...

How 'bout a synopsis???

Just curious, but didja ever wonder why the states were so eager to cede their sovereignty to the feral gummint? I recall wondering to myself some 20 - 25 years ago, "what gives here?" Power to a politician, even state politicos, is like well, rye whiskey to a drunk. My thoughts then, but less so now, the feral gummint was better able to skim off tax dollars than the states. Who would then "redistribute" the bacon drippings amongst the several states to level the playing field. It would be more fair you see. I suppose the well off states were probably brow beaten into sharing the wealth???

[starbase]

didja ever wonder why the states were so eager to cede their sovereignty to the feral gummint?

To take a stab at this question of yours, I'd guess it had more to do with the desperate desire to survive combined with the recent experience of how ineffectual the Articles of Confederation were.

Think of their position, just fought a hard war with a major world power, relatively small country, surrounded by (understandably) hostile Indians, weak economy, weaker military. We haven't always had the luxury of our opponent's militaries being rounding errors in relation to ours.

I'll bet they were damn keen on getting something stable running 'yesterday'. And having just tried a Confederacy, they probably thought *total* states rights weren't all they were cracked up to be.

If those assumptions are correct, then I would say they made the right choice at the time.