Federal power has grown because that is what the American people wanted. Until those people change this will not change. State governments are laughably corrupt so much so that people turned to the federal government for defense against the local crooks. Local governments are often more corrupt than the state ones.
Look, for example, at the relation that Black Americans have to the federal government. It freed them, protected them from the ex-slavers for a decade until the Democrat parties got back on their feet in the southern states. Then it was Supreme Court rulings which forced those states to respect their constitutional rights over the next century. Hence, they have FAR more respect and affection for the federal government.
Generally, the only chance of cleaning up state and local politics comes when federal attorney’s get involved. That is certainly true in Illinois and Chicago where I see it every day.
When I describe or analyze something why do you insist on taking my opinions about what I see as something I wish for and something personal? Explaining that the final say on a law: good, bad or indifferent, rests with the Supreme Court somehow strikes you as Communism. But it was the Founders who established its role not Karl Marx or me.
Then there is the problem of how the greatest political conception ever created, the US Constitution, could have become so corrupted that you now consider it an enemy.
Where could help come from if that is true? The idiots and petty crooks which make up state governments?
What geniuses could surpass those of 1787? Those who don’t even understand the system they are criticizing?
Besides even a perfect government could come to a bad end if it is controlled by imperfect people.