No one likes to get smacked down, and knowing that congress or the states can overturn loony decisions would go a long way toward minimizing said loony decisions in the first place.
Mark's amendments mean a government even more federal than the framers’ design. That is a good thing.
As long as people understand by “federal” you mean power BALANCED between the STATES and federal government (the true meaning of federal).
The term “federal” has been misused and misunderstood for quite a while now and to most it means giving more power to the US “federal” level of government.