Peikoff made this same exact point in one of the last few podcasts. I forget which one. I think it is a good point. So, there shouldn’t be a “Federation” even if it were an Objectivist one.

Jim, would you say that this is *the* Conservative view of American government? Whereas the Left wants the omnipotent Federal state and eventually the omnipotent world state.

I don’t see decentralization as much more than a brake. That is why conservatives are ultimately useless in this fight, at best; they only want to slow down, at a time we need to actually reverse direction and go back the other way — towards freedom.

That being said, Harry Binswanger did say in a discussion with me that having multiple independent nations instead of a one-world superstate was better, even in the context of a healthy world culture; such would serve as insurance and containment against any state that went “rogue”.

The idea that the federal government should be constrained, but the states free to legislate as they please, however, is a big mistake; the Constitution of a free nation, federated or not, should be a charter of the rights of the people against government — period.

“Last week the Democrats decided that, if they’re going to try to sell this plan to their constituents, they need to have a better sense of what it says, line by line.”