I don't know that I'd go as far as you, but I've often thought that, as our population has increased by two orders of magnitude since the founding of the Republ

I don't know that I'd go as far as you, but I've often thought that, as our population has increased by two orders of magnitude since the founding of the Republic, we ought to add another level of indirection in our government to keep things manageable. Right now we have municipal, state, and federal. Perhaps something like the proposal in the article could be used to introduce a new intermediate level of organization between state and federal.