I guess I'm old fashioned where government is concerned. I mean REALLY old fashioned. I've heard it said that Benjamin Franklin took many aspect of the Iroquois Confederation, which had existed for over a thousand years, and gave it to the dudes who wrote the constitution.

It wasn't broke so why fix it? The constitution intended for the FEDERAL government to defend the border and a few other things. That's it. (read the tenth amendment) nothing else. Everything else is 'states rights' do or not do, up to you

So yeah. I'm as old fashioned as the Iroqouis Nation.