The size of the federal government has been debated since before the foundation of the United States. While many would disagree with a totally powerful federal government akin to Stalinism, they would also oppose a neutered government like that under the Articles of Confederation: the Constitution’s Predecessor. In my personal opinion, many issues are best left to a central government, and ever more so with the development of technology making state governments increasingly obsolete. In fact, I favor a central global government, however we all know that that would be totally unfeasible for a myriad reasons. The most common argument in favor of a limited federal government is that, by giving more autonomy to states, its residents have more of a voice in their own governance. In response to that I would say that if our nation was governed under such a principal (generally aligned with the modern day Libertarian movement), Jim Crow Laws would still be in place for a number of states. Another argument is that the federal government is far too bloated and states, who don’t have the financial support of all 50 states to carry it, will have to be much more conservative in their spending and use of authority. To counter that I would say that the same issues would arise at the state level, only at a smaller scale but distributed over 50 states rather than just one nation. Those who argue against reduction of federal government power (whether for increases or the status quo) generally