Basically, the federal government has 535 senators and congressmen to govern over the 18
enumerated items found in Article One, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution —an appropriate number of public servants to look after a few governing responsibilities. There are over 7,000 state legislators around the country seeing to ALL THE REMAINING governing responsibilities—an appropriate number of public servants to look after innumerable governing responsibilities. GOVERNING BALANCE ACHIEVED.

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I would like to suggest one small correction in your very well written article. The analogy of the relationship between a State and the federal government—instead of husband and wife, it should be a parent (the States) and child (the federal government). The States are sovereign and have delegated only a very few powers to its child the federal government. A husband and wife are assumed to be co-equal and that is not at all what the relationship is between the States and the federal government. The State, unlike how it appears today, is the superior authority in the relationship—all the more support for the actions recommended in your article.

Bill Miller