The destruction of the states as meaningful sovereign entities and the rise of the central government First, there's an awful lot of historical revisionism in

The destruction of the states as meaningful sovereign entities and the rise of the central government First, there's an awful lot of historical revisionism in your comment; we had a system of incredibly limited central government, in which states were the "meaningful" sovereigns and the union into a single nation could almost pass without noticing. And that was the system the Constitution was written to replace. Second, in light of the historical evidence regarding the failure of the first system (the Articles of Confederation), do you believe the United States would be better operating under such a system again?