Thanks for the link. I did take a look. But I think they are not responding to a more basic question. The underlying assumption that seems to underpin these efforts is that the individual states are more likely to support a limited role for government than the Federal government would. I think that assumption is a false one.
The states exert far more control over our day to day lives than the Federal government does. So we want an arrangement where at the end of the day the states have even more power? Where is the evidence that the states will act with any more restraint than the Federal government?