What on Earth do you think the Federal government is, exactly? By what magic is a government over ten million people to be distrusted, but by aggregating 325 million people&#x27;s government all of which are also ruled over by these presumably nontrustworthy states, are magically transformed into bastions of sense and sensibility? Where&#x27;s the line, exactly? It&#x27;s all the same people!<p>Personally, I think it&#x27;s just you can sort of imagine a state-sized government, but the Federal government is just inconceivably large so you end up modeling it by what you imagine it could conceivably be, rather than a model that resembles what it is. Other than the fact our Federal government is more interested in fighting Christianity than enforcing it, I could substantiate everything else you said for our Federal government, too. In fact, some of them are clearly more the responsibility of the Federal government <i>right now</i>.