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I don't really get what problem this solves. You want to get rid of the federal government, but you still want everyone to "pitch in for mutual defense"... which sounds a lot like federal taxes? So what are we actually getting rid of? Popular programs that nobody wants to lose like Medicare/Social Security? Who actually wants this? When you get to the details, it feels like this is just a conservative pro military / small government wet dream.
Furthermore, there's other important government functions that are going to be hard to split up, mainly control of the treasury and how money gets printed and added to circulation. And if you want to throw all that out, now it's just sounding super libertarian.
So I guess I just don't get what you're imagining here that's not just a clearly right wing vision for what the government should look like.
Can you point to any time in history where all fifty states have truly been united on all issues? Maybe the war, but after that we go straight into the 50/60/70/80s etc, all of which represent huge social division. >

Not even the war. There were plenty of americans sucking hitler's dick.