The Democrats say that the Constitution only works in a radically changing society if you interpret it liberally, in a living sense, for every generation. The conservatives say that the Constitution must be interpreted according to what the founding fathers intended. The root of the conflict between Democrats and Republicans is over the proper use of federal power.
Today, federal paralysis means that there is a resurgence of activity on the state level.
With a conservative court, the states could even become the vanguard of the progressive movement. In the post-Civil War, post-Warren court era, federalism may be able to work in a way that it never could before.
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