I tend to be on the literalist end; I think I would be happier if the country had not drifted so far from what the Constitution mandates. I am not sure that there is a way for the country to return to a reasonable degree of states rights, however---witness the civil war, federal income tax, and the widespread attitude that the important identification is at the federal level. I would settle for passing some ammendments to bring de jure into line with de facto, and cleaning up the system to remove obsolete vestiges of the old state-centric system.

Now I will have to find out what the basis for Roe vs. Wade was, because I've never really formed an opinion on whether it was a Constitutional issue. I think that there are plenty of legitimate Constitutional issues (free speech, seperation of church and state, intelectual property) where the court should intervene, and I think that the legislature has quite enough power to overrule a court decision, if they would actually use it. I had not thought to connect the evidence that the Executive branch has too much power with the evidence that the Judicial branch has too much power (or is overused), but it seems reasonable.

I wonder if this term's History of Political Thought class will change everything I think about these issues.