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What a ridiculous nonsequitur. Colonial governments, you know the precursor to 'state governments', came into existence out of a need to better distribute the resources of the colonial whole. As such, while each of them had their own merits exemptions etc, they were seen as part of a whole. Furthermore, destroying the "mini-countries" argument is the fact that the US didn't come to experience any real regionalism until the 19th century. So how in Buddha's green earth could there have a notion that each state was its own entity? If you really want to make the case that each state was its own individual "mini-country" why did we create a FEDERATION and not a CONFEDERATION? Do you know the difference between the two?
We didn't create either a Federation or a Confederation. We created a Union. Do you know the difference?
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.