Damn the Constitution - Full speed ahead?
'[T]he nature of federal-state relations changed fundamentally after the Civil War. That conflict produced in its wake a tremendous expansion in the scope of the Federal Government's lawmaking authority, so much so that the persons who helped to found the Republic would scarcely have recognized the many added roles the National Government assumed for itself.'
Justice White, [dissenting]New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992)
Buckminster Fuller wrote that whenever something becomes too big it dies or becomes much, much smaller. Sadly, this national government is way too big and must die.