Can you imagine if we actually had smart people thinking about these issues? I want to read James Madison's essay about how best to preserve individual state autonomy while avoiding the problem of large states being able to effectively write laws across their borders because of the reality of economics and national manufacturing. There's so much nuance of when each side oversteps and since everything is interstate commerce where the federal government should nonetheless be restrained.

It used to be I could read supreme court opinions for this kind of sincere analysis but it seems like the time for discussions like this time is gone.