Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

States' rights under a federated system still mean something – except when they mean nothing to the reigning power. Britain, by withdrawing from the European Union (EU), has just provided to the free world’s democratic remnant a valuable lesson in sovereignty. Among other reasons the “Leave” party in Britain was anxious to dissever the ties that bound it to the EU was a loss of decision-making power, the leeching of sovereignty from Britain to Brussels, where matters of national import were decided by EU bureaucrats fortified against a democratic voting process to which the government of Britain had since the “Glorious Revolution” of 1688, which led through Britain’s  1689 Bill of Rights  to a Parliamentary ascendancy, willingly bent its knees.