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With each State making all the decisions you would have nothing but a bureaucracy of conflicting laws and regulations that rival a communist State. There would be NO reason to call this the United States because in your fantasy there would be nothing united about it. You forget that at the beginning the country WAS a patchwork of States and laws and the founders had to deal with this fact. But as time went by, efficiency out weighed States rights and our country truly became united. There was nothing special about a loose conglomeration of nation States but through unification we rose to become a great power.
each state is sovereign and independent from the other..Madison.
by having states create their own laws, this make laws closer to the people, and the people have more control over the laws that govern them, on a national level, laws are not as responsive to the people.
when this nation went from the articles to the constitution, states still retained their powers, they only secede a few powers to the government, those being 18.
we rose to be a great nation because people had freedom, and were not under the authority of the federal government. America has gone into decline in the last 50 years because of government intervention into our daily life's....a place they have no authority in.