Your comment is self-contradictory. You can’t restrain the federal government by taking power away from the states and the people. The only way to restrain the federal government is by limiting it to its enumerated powers, and the power you want to give them is not one of those.
Nothing "contradictory" about it, self or otherwise.
Read it again if you disagree.
Boogieman: "You can’t restrain the federal government by taking power away from the states and the people.
The only way to restrain the federal government is by limiting it to its enumerated powers, and the power you want to give them is not one of those."
But the definition of "enumerated powers" -- in the hands of today's liberal/progressives -- means literally anything they can imagine, so it will not help you restrict Federal power & scope of government.
The only possible way to defeat the word-smithing of our Big Government supporters is by reference to Founders Original Intent, as modified by subsequent constitutional amendments.
Even that is not fool-proof against an electorates' insatiable desires for More Big Government, but it at least starts the debates where it belongs: what exactly did our Founders mean by their Declaration and Constitution, as it applies to today?
Finally your phrase, "the power you want to give them" refers to nothing I've posted, is just a figment of your own imagination.