Some have said that we are witnessing a Second American Revolution, but this misses the mark. A better word would be “reformation” because what we really want is for the federal government to be reformed to the original intent of the Constitution. The problem is all knotted in Washington DC, with the federal government. The intent of federalism is to divide power and and functions between multiple levels of government. What we have been seeing for the past hundred years has been the concentration of power in Washington DC and the gradual erosion of federalism. If we are reforming the federal government then we would necessarily mean reestablishing federalism. We need a Federalist Reformation.

What we are seeing, however, is not a Federalist Reformation. Rather, we are seeing the political landscape becoming very conductive to a Federalist Reformation. We are all against higher taxes and government intrusion. Those are very general notions and so long as those are the ideas then what we can expect to happen is very simple. A Republican revolution that sees taxes cut and assorted changes are made, but the underlying problem will not have been addressed.

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