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A share of the blame for what follows belongs to Mr. Justice Brennan, whose twenty years of distinguished labor on behalf of our constitutional system-on behalf, I should say, of the men, women, and children whose rights and concerns that system serves-this journal justly celebrates. It was the Justice who, by his striking and powerful dissent in National League of Cities v. Usery (NLC),1 first made me think there must be even more to that case than meets the eye. His opinion is remarkable for its depth of feeling, its sense of occasion, of foreboding, of fatal and momentous choice. The eloquence is disciplined and surgical-not so sweepingly flamboyant as, say, the impassioned Frankfurter's, 2 but as stirring. The opinion speaks with a controlled intensity that at first seems disconsonant with both the immediate impact of the Court's decision (denial of congressional minimum-wage protection to state and municipal employees) and its broader doctrinal significance (recognition of some state governmental immunity from congressional regulation under the commerce clause). Both developments, to be sure, are important. But it seems unlikely that the immediate impact taken by itself-if, say, it had resulted from a disputable statutory

States' Rights and States' Roles: Permutations of "Sovereignty" in National League of Cities v. Usery