In the modern United States, states are a particularly poor level of organization to have a unitary government--it's small enough that regulatory capture is too

In the modern United States, states are a particularly poor level of organization to have a unitary government--it's small enough that regulatory capture is too easy but too large to be responsive to people's concerns. If we want to let lower levels of government to handle more responsibility, then we should go beyond states' rights and make states federal and municipal governments unitary.