[Publius]

You can't be federal and national at the same time.

In Federalist #39, Madison parsed those aspects of the system that were federal versus those that were national. I take it you disagree with his paper.

[Huck]

I disagree with his entire premise that you can have a system that is part-national. I say a system that is part-national is a national system, and that such a system obviously tends to solidify and grow its nationalistic powers over time.

I think his ideas have been utterly disproved by 200 years of practice.