The US tried this with their first constitution which lasted barely a decade. And the the macro scale issues these days are significantly larger than what they had to deal with back then.

I was going to say, with the increase in mobility today it could be a nightmare having a patchwork of laws at the municipal level.

Coase’s theory doesn’t only apply to firms but to other organizations as well.

Imagine if San Diego wanted water from the Colorado River (what nerve!). They’d have to negotiate with every little town next to the river. And if one town doesn’t want to negotiate, well, they can attract business with offers of “take as much water as you want” and “emit as much toxic waste as you want”, and we’ll fuck the people downstream.

Indeed, confederations of liquid democracies. The only people to make a decision should be the ones effected by it.

Now try to define "affected" and that's where the war will be fought.

Definitely. That's where the conversation needs to shift. Those are the kinds of questions we should be debating on a case by case or inductive basis, not these asinine and useless popularity contests.