I agree with that. Our federal government has never been provided the privilege to legislate abortion issues. Nor have they been provided the thousands of other privileges they exercise with each piece of new unconstitutional legislation.
Thanks for your replies. I think the “laboratories of democracy” concept for the states works well for us serfs in two ways.
First, it allows specialization. IOW, Illinois can become a haven for nanny state liberals, while Tennessee can work to serve the interests of Constitutionally literate libertarians, for example.
Second, it encourages competition among states to attract dewsirable citizens and businesses. If one state becomes too greedy for tax dollars or enacts silly regulations, the neighbor states should benefit at their expense. If all the rules are forced or even ALLOWED to be harmonized, ALL the states can be more heavy handed than they could get away with if they were in proper competition with one another.
For these reasons, I hate all these interstate legislative and governors’/mayors’/etc. comferences because it enables them to copy each others tyrannical innovations and level the playing field between themselves, lessening our power to vote with our feet.