That's ridiculous, and you chose a poor example in France, anyway. The national government is expressly prohibited from intruding into the normal operations of its administrative subdivisions.
Anyone who doesn't realize the stronger a centralized government is, the more dangerous it is, is hopelessly naive, at best.
In American history, the state governments have generally been more dangerous than the federal. It was the state governments that sanctioned slavery and Jim Crow. At present, it is only state governments who are trying to ban abortion.
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