“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The year was 1972. The election, like the rest of the country, was sharply divided between the “Bomb Hanoi” rhetoric coming from the Nixon re-election campaign and U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy’s impassioned calls of “Come Home, America!” I was just 21 years old. It...