Read your post #355 - EXCELLENT!
If more Americans were taught our proper history in the public schools, they would wish that the Anti-Federalists had won the day at the founding of our country. And you are correct, Republican/Democrat, makes no difference - same Federalist animal - only the stripes have a different pattern.
What America needs is an ANTI-FEDERALIST PARTY running ANTI-FEDERALIST CANDIDATES.
I'll go through my bookmarks and look for it.
I think we need a federal government. If we didn't have one we would revert back to a confederacy. I need to reread them to see if I still agree, but the early papers in the Federalist Papers explain why confederacies are undesirable. I'll get back about that.
I believe one small correction is all that is needed. The government does things lawfully. It will do the most immoral thing if there is not a law to stop it, but it will obey the law.
The Federal Constitution must be amended to guarantee the people of what is described as the Federal Zone, Washington DC, the Territories, Forts, Magazines, etc., and federal citizens aka U.S. citizens living in the several states, a Republican form of government. There should be a bill of rights for federal citizens that does not grant rights but restricts the legislative possibilities of the federal government over its own citizens. A bill could be passed that the first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution would simply for the first time in history, and in perpetuity and irrevocably, be extended to U.S. citizens. The federal government would be barred from creating any new kinds of citizens that don't already exist. If we didn't bar them that, they'd simply create a new kind of citizen the bill of rights didn't apply to.