We need to give the States the power they have in the Constitution, rather than thinking in terms of succession or devolution into a Union of States as George Kennan proposed before his death, or as the more controversial Wilmot Robertson proposed before his death. And Regionalism can be revitalized as well.
The Principle of Subsidiarity (Catholicism) can be reaffirmed, local people and organizations perform more effectively than a more distant central organization. Each state within the American Federal System could even be thought of as an “Ethnostate,” if independence and variety are fully reaffirmed.
The States must be safe within the Union, but the Union must allow the States great strength and independence. This defines a Jeffersonian-Lincolnian position, with individuals and society prior to government (Jeffersonian) and States as units of the central government (Lincolnian).
The structure of Economic Nationalism needs the central government to protect the businesses within the independent States from global exploitation. This is affirmed in Revitalized Conservatism.
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