Many people point to the over-reach of the Commerce Clause as the cause for this, but I think that today, it is the over-reach of the 14th amendment "equal protection" clause that is the culprit.
The federal government is using "equal protection" to make the states irrelevant, citing the "unfairness" of people in one state being subjected to more restrictive laws than people in another state.
This naturally leads to the choices made in the most liberal states being forced onto the citizens of all the other states. Couple this with the "full faith and credit" clause of Article IV, and you have a bludgeon that the liberals wield to force the whole nation to comply with gay marriage, abortion, gun control, education policy, and any other Leftist agenda item that liberals can think of.
-PJ
Agreed. The most disturbing thing to me, however, is that I've found no Constitutional basis for the existence of a '14th Amendment citizen' as contemporary government erroneously applies the concept today.
Only in the time frame of it's writing and for the explicit purpose of engendering the freed slaves with citizenship, (because at that point, they had none) is the 14th Amendment remotely Constitutional.
IMO, the deconstruction of our country is based on the legal fallacy that the 14th operates in perpetuity...something it could no more do than the grandfather clause could be applicable today.