The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. – Theodore Roosevelt
So what would happen if Washington kept passing unfunded mandates and states kept rejecting the mandates? At what point would the federal government be de facto illegitimate in the eyes of the population? Or are we already there?