Forces of the Federal government have been on the march and increasing power for the last 140 years. They show no signs of slowing down, let alone stopping. T

Forces of the Federal government have been on the march and increasing power for the last 140 years. They show no signs of slowing down, let alone stopping. The irony is that the original impetus for the Federal government to assert supremacy was to give freedom to the slaves -- the right thing to do, but it's unlikely that we'll recover from that power shift any time soon.