No , I am Alpharius ! <| sep |> I hope smoothie is just a huge Brook fan and goes all fan girlish on him . <| sep |> The US is a Union of States . Statecraft is supposed to be left to the States . The federal govt is there for quality control . But somewhere in the progressive era , populists started treating the federal government for Statecraft . So as far as quality control goes , the federal government has been struggling to keep up it ' s end of the bargain . Somehow we handed them indefinite detention without a trial , the sedition act is casually implemented to intimidate journalist and so on . But the constitution still softens the blow . Our prisons would be like Abu Graib without it . <| sep |> We really can ' t get rid of it with a Republican majorities in every branch and in most states .