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"Federalization" refers to the taking of functions from the States to the agency they created in 1787-1789.

No, it doesn't. You are misleading Freepers.

The taking of state functions by the one or the few can be described by several different terms. Federal isn't one of them. The Anti-Federalists of 1787-1789 used "consolidation."

Federal refers to things that pertain to the "Federal" Government--what the States that agreed to Federate, set up. The Constitution is the only legal basis for that Government. It has no authority but for the Constitution.

So, I am not suggesting that what has been happening is legal, or entitled to moral respect--or is a "consolidation"; but it has given the Federal Government additional jobs to do, illegally. And unless the Courts or someone stops it, it will continue to create "Federal" agencies, in addition to those intended by the Federating sovereigns in 1789. (These take the practical immediate effect of layering Federal job holders over legitimate State & local agencies. Obamacare & "No Child Left Behind" are examples. The Constitution gave the Federal Government no role whatsoever in either civilian education or civilian health care--None!