My object is not to prove that the powers and functions of government have grown steadily more centralized,
more remote from the people, for that proposition requires no proof; it requires only that one open one’s eyes.
Rather, my intention is to plead that the process of consolidation first be halted, then reversed, toward the end
that our Federal government may be strictly limited to its Constitutional functions and the States may again be
encouraged to look after their own affairs, for good or ill.
My object is not to prove that the powers and functions of government have grown steadily more centralized,
more remote from the people, for that proposition requires no proof; it requires o…