Baker almost provoked a constitutional convention, and in other timw would have. It is revolutionary in its way as Roe was reveolutionary, in that it showed that Warren's Court thought of the states as mere provinces rather than separate republics.
You are right and well put. I had not thought of the Warren Court in that way.
I once gave a talk at a Jewish Community Center, which was filled, as the stereotype goes, with knee-jerk liberals. In it, I praised states'-rights and said that the states were the last bastion between tyranny and them. Then I said, "anyone who is Jewish (I am part Jewish) and believes in a strong central government has a learning disability." Now I know we have many Jewish Freepers and I certainly do not mean any disregard (I am not a Jew-hating Jew), but the attacks of those who really are serious about the Bill of Rights and the democracy--which in my synagogue approaches Torah status--on the states, baffles me.
I have never been invited back--and that was a darn good lecture.
Off-subject, sorry.