For those Beltway inhabitants who may see themselves as political overlords, `The Hunger Games’ was a work of fiction. The District of Columbia isn’t the omnipotent `Capitol City’ and the states aren’t provincial districts.
The feds are the creatures of the states, not vice versa, and their home is a small, triangular shaped parcel between Maryland and Virginia and very small federal enclaves, buildings and military installations in the states.
And again, they are guests in the states where we live and not the other way around. The founders of this country accepted these things as unspoken verities.
You may believe that but I assure you those who reside inside the Beltway don't and they firmly believe that the alliance of national government muscle and dollars and Wall Street and the media/Hollywood complex can control and overmaster just about anything that the ‘provincials’ can throw their way.
Not really, it's plain as day in the preamble to the Bill of Rights:
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.
ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.