this article appeared on the state.com, an SC online news outlet and was written by George F. Will. This article was written to bring attention to what the author believes is the potential of debilitation of federalism in our country. The author is passionately against this and is very upset with the actions of McCain-Feingold and wants all readers, particularly patriotic readers, to be informed at Feingold's desire at tampering with the constitution.
According to the writer, Feingold and McCain have a desire to amend the 17th amendment which he believes will rupture our lengthy policy of checks and balances and puts federalism in jeopardy.
I personally find myself lately believing that states have a bit too much power and seem to consistently fail in all types of arenas such as budget shortfall, corrupt appointing, and not really putting the people first. I tend now to lean towards that side that the states should be relinquished of their powers and have the federal government have more control over the entire country. my best comparison to this would be would pro sports like NFL and NBA do with collective bargaining. some teams (states) obviously aren't ran or perform as well as others. with collective bargaining (federal govt) we equally distribute the success and failure so that there is a balanced league (USA).
I also subscribe to the fact of never touching the constitution so I am against Feingold as well here. The more you pick at a thread the more it will unravel. I dont think this country can stand to have much more unraveling. our complex system of checks and balances seperates us from other countries and if we pick away at that, this country will quickly fail and crumble.
