Fewer than ten percent of Americans are even remotely familiar with how the federal government was envisioned by the founders, or even what the meaning of a federal republic is. I sincerely hope that before I die I see one governor with a backbone who stands up to Washington and says, "We're not yielding to your blackmail. In this state, we know about the Ninth and Tenth Amendments." If we had had just a few governors say, "No thanks" to No Child Left Behind, the rest of the states would have jumped on the bandwagon and the law would have collapsed.