Most Americans have no concept of a state, except some quaint imitative entity that disburses federal monies and names local flora and fauna as symbols. The idea that states were intended to act as a bulwark against the Federal government is as incomprehensible the deleterious effects of compound interest with regard to debt.
The Seventeenth Amendment has been promoted as a great victory for Democracy, and it truly was. Federalism suffered a mortal wound on its passage, and the Leviathan was born. Constitutional powers are now considered anachronistic and the archaic concerns of those dead white men will be proven false by the adherents of the modern god, equality.
Exactly!
Well said.