Is federalism success?
The whole idea of having a federal government was to make the union between the states strong and defensible, while serving as a protector of individual rights and the rights of the people. This is hardly the federal government we have today. Today we have a government that writes laws such as the patriot act which seek to reign in the liberty of people, we have a government that insists that parents can only be parents if the state approves, and if the state does not approve then the children will be confiscated and made wards of the state, in order to “save the children”. The federal government will insist that popular referendum in repeal of prohibitive laws is trumped by federal law and will use it’s allocation of federal monies as a bargaining tool in keeping the states in line. The idea of federalism was to form a more perfect union different from that of divine right or the whims of petty tyrants. Where is the success of that in today’s federal government?
