loose associations that their national governments are really barely even governments in name: they are confederal. In others—like the United States, India, or Australia—the balances among the various levels is roughly equal: they are federal.* The takeaway from all this political blah-blah-blah is that in the United States the federal government—that’s the one headquartered in Washington, D.C.—was expressly not designed to serve the interest of any specific ethnicity.
