Reading around the Internet and happening upon Real Clear Politics, History, was Taking Federalism Seriously “explaining the major themes that define the American mind.”

This article is Bogus and Bull. The articles relies on Alexis Tocqueville who toured the United States in the early 1830s and wrote a book, Democracy in America. Old Alexis was here 30 years before the American Civil War and 35 years before Amendments 13, 14, 15 were added to the American Constitution. On an institutional level Tocqueville knew American democracy and government, not. His book may be of sociological interest.

Amendments, 13, 14 and 15, changed federalism as Tocqueville or anyone observing earlier knew it. Anytime an amendment has a paragraph, usually at the end, providing, The Congress shall have the power to enforce by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article, federalism is weakened or eliminated and a grant of authority and power is given to the Federal government.

Real Clear Politics should stop deceiving itself and its readers.