A recent Washington Post article claimed that states in America are a relic of its past and should be disposed of for the sake of greater economic and governing efficiency. We should expect such an argument coming from a D.C. newspaper. Of course, this is primarily a reaction against the existence of the Electoral College and yet another immature complaint about the election results, but it is something more than that; it is a full admission of complete ignorance about the nature of our country, these United States, and a willful forgetting of the purpose of federalism as a load-bearing wall that restrains tyrannical government in the architecture of our republic. During the ratification debates, Anti-Federalists objected that the proposed constitution would consolidate the states into a single nation that could not but destroy their liberty. While the Federalists agreed that a consolidation of the states over such a large territory (then only thirteen states!) would destroy...(Read Full Article)