Re: "That is the reason that our forefathers gave the States their own sovereignty. So that the governmental unit closest to the people could solve their particular problems and provide for the needs as they saw fit to do, without the necesity of involving the Federal Government."

I would agree that was the reason our forefathers devised a defined separation of powers between the federal government and the states, but, Doyle, is it not a little bit of a leap of faith to conclude what I described as the rationale for why the states remained sovereign.

In what I have read, I have not seen "state sovereignty," per se, defined in terms of the states performing on behalf of, or in the place of the federal government - no matter how rationale and appealing that interpretation is.