Can Federalism And State Sovereignty Be Revived?
Beginning on September 11, 2001, the expansion and consolidation of the national government took another quantitative and qualitative leap forward, this time toward World Empire. As the United States approaches the end of the first decade of the 21st century and the 220th year of the American constitutional republic, an unrestrained, largely unlimited national government routinely ignores precious individual rights once held inviolate under the U.S. Constitution, regularly tramples on states’ prerogatives, pursues total information awareness of every detail of individuals’ lives, seeks total behavior control of American citizens and asserts the right to exert its power without the sanction of a declaration of war or legal warrant into any country against any individual anytime, anyplace in the world. Fear, ignorance and greed, when fueled and manipulated by propaganda reduce people’s natural immune responses to oppressive and parasitic government, allowing politicians to sap their esse