It’s actually a positive feature of our government that it’s easiest to get things done, get laws passed, and get people elected at the lowest and most local levels, and it is at those levels that the government should most impact your life. At its highest levels, the government has the most restrictions, hurdles, checks, complications, and it’s hardest to get things done, get laws passed, and get elected. And that’s exactly how it should be.
Government is at its least relevant and least tailored and least individualized at the federal level. At the level with the broadest implications you stick to the most basic and general actions, and they must go through the most rigorous testing and negotiation. Which is why government by executive order has never been a central pillar of our legal structure, and why it never should be.
It is inappropriate for such large scale changes that have such massive implications to be made by a single person. The closer you get to a specified, distinct local level, the more individuated law can become. The more it can be tailored to knowledge and feedback coming directly from the constituents. The lower down you go, the less restrained it can be because there are other, effective feedback mechanisms built into the situation as proximity increases.
Of course, government can go wrong at any level, regardless. But structurally this is how government should be arranged to best navigate the inherent strengths and weakness of the spectrum from local all the way up to federal government. The most expansive authority and least safeguards can more safely be invested at the smallest levels, where they affect the smallest number of people whose situations are known and experienced in the greatest detail (the family being the most essential non-singular unit, and being a form of heriditary monarchy). And the least expansive authority with the most checks and safeguards belong at the highest level, where the most people are affected and the least detailed knowledge of their situation is present.
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