Growing federal power — driven by legislation, validated by Supreme Court decisions, and accelerated by presidential ambition — has eroded the rule of law in our nation, leaving almost no activity that the central government cannot at its discretion, regulate, manipulate, or prohibit.  A constitutional counterrevolution has occurred in America — one so profound that few today can imagine Americans free of dependence on government.

–  Charlotte Twight
"Dependent on DC the Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans” [2002]