alan1
Gold Member
Wilson's regime set the stage for the mess we have today.Liberoidals have bastardized that and the interstate commerce clause to basically claim federal jurisdiction over anything and everything.
It is because they have destroyed Federalism, that is, the power of the states to govern themselves. Here is logic progressives used at the beginning of the 20th century to erradicate the power of the states. Woodrow Wison wrote,
"The old theory of the sovereignty of the states, which used to engage our passions, has lost its vitality. The war between the states established at least this principle, that the federal government is, through its courts, the final judge of its own powers. Furthermore, we are impatient of state legislatures because they seem to us less representative of the thoughtful opinion of the country Congress is. We know that our legislatures do not think alike, but we are not sure that our people do not think alike."
From the perspective of a progressive like Wilson, the Civil War proved that state sovereignty was a failure. However, what if the federal government at that time was like it is today and dominated state rights? Furthermore, what if that federal government had sided with the slave owners?
And lastly, with an approval rating of around 10% for the Congress of the United States, can we safely say that Wilson's notion of a federal Congress better representing the populace better than a state legislature is full of poo?
He's easily one of the top three worst presidents of all time.
Actually, it was Mr Lincoln that first destroyed states rights and set into motion the all powerful federal government.
Mr Wilson may be in the top three. But Mt Lincoln is number one when it comes to trampling states rights in favor of an all powerful federal government.