And amending the Constitution requires the states’ involvement, 38 of them. That is federalism, my friend, whether you care to admit it or not.
I admit it freely. That builds a new structure of proper federalism (in these cases, as it pertains to Human Life and to Marriage) where previously the protective bubble has been burst.
Now here, oddly -- and very unfortunately -- is where Fred Thompson's version of federalism fails. It fails to do what is proscribed to do, to reorient the nation on its Declaration underpinnings.