The Constitution was designed to produce just such a result:
"Thus I apprehend, it is evident that the consolidation of the States into one national government (in contra- distinction from a confederacy) would be the necessary consequence of the establishment of the new constitution, and the intention of its framers-and that consequently the State sovereignties would be eventually annihilated, though the forms may long remain as expensive and burdensome remembrances of what they were in the days when (although laboring under many disadvantages) they emancipated this country from foreign tyranny, humbled the pride and tarnished the glory of royalty, and erected a triumphant standard to liberty and independence. "
Antifederalist 39, A Farmer
I don't believe that to be true but there are those who, from the very beginning, sought to bring about that result and they are currently winning!
If that was the aim NO STATE would have signed on..
The intent was for a confederation not a central government..
The States considered themselves sovereign, Sovereign States..
The federal government was intended for certain specific limited purposes..
The result has been in the STATES having certain specific limited purposes..
Democracy is Mob Rule.. by mobsters.. i.e. strong central government weak provinces.. even weaker local governments..