perfidy

From Baseball Crank (via Volokh) comes this article about "Federalism's Edge." From the article:

. . .when you mention "federalism," many on the Left and Right alike assume that you mean only "States Rights," defined as local autonomy in opposition to federal power. But in recent times, the greater threat to political diversity and responsiveness in self-government has come instead from states overstepping their boundaries to the point that they make policies for the whole Union. That is what I define as Federalism’s Edge: the point at which an exercise of state power (by a state or group of states) infringes on the right to self-government of the citizens of the other states. If a national government is overweening, intrusive and unresponsive when it is housed inside the Beltway, it is no less so -- in fact, even more so -- if it sits in a legislature in Sacramento, a jury room in a small town in Alabama, or a law office in Hartford. After all, at least the average citizen sometimes gets to vote in a contested election for representatives in Washington.

Very interesting, not to mention timely! Thanks, Mr. Crank!