[Austin Willard Wright]

My own view is that we should decentralize down to the level of the Swiss canton system. If we did, people could defend their freedom by voting with their feet rather than relying a federal leviathan which will *never* be satisfied with limiting its power to defending "rights."

[dirtboy]

If we did, people could defend their freedom by voting with their feet rather than relying a federal leviathan which will *never* be satisfied with limiting its power to defending "rights."

I tend to blame the founders for this problem. You cannot create a limited-government system that also allows a group to be denied their core federal rights by the underlying entities. Had the founders addressed slavery at the time the Constitution were written, much of the justification for federal expansion of powers would have been nullified right there and then.