At the moment, though, a typical state operates like a smaller version of the federal government with all the same potential abuses of power.
Perhaps what we need are city rights or town rights. People could then pick and choose the town or city that's right for them, or incorporate a new town or city. Reducing the restraints on any government larger than that though is just too dangerous.
What we need to do is never give up the fight of defending the constitution and the founding principles. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Thomas Jefferson spelled out our final recourse when the government becomes destructive of our unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the ability to secure these rights.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.