The beauty of the American founding is that it dispersed government power between a national government and state governments, as well as within each government.

Over time that balance has become disturbed, with the national government taking on more and more roles previously reserved for states (e.g., education) and by controlling how states do their business (e.g., highway speed limits).

One of the latest examples of this change was the Real ID act, by which Congress took control over the design of drivers licenses.

Earlier this year, the Independence Institute said that Colorado should follow the lead of Montana and refuse to enact the Real ID.

Meanwhile, the Stateline.org news service runs an op-ed from Leticia Van de Putte, president of the National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL), condemning the act. I suspect that the Independence Institute and the NCSL, an official (that means your tax dollars at work) organization of state governments officials, don't agree that often. Call it one of those "strange bedfellows" times.