If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

(1957) and a Ph. Wilson was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and a member of the International Council of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation. (2010 with John J.

A Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University and a senior fellow at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College he was a co-author of the 1982 article introducing the broken windows theory. James Quinn Wilson (May 27 1931 – March 2 2012) was an American academic political scientist and an authority on public administration.