WHEN LINCOLN USED FEDERAL AUTHORITY AGAINST REBELLING STATES HE WON A PYRRIC VICTORY

The outsized federal authority he wrongly appropriated, and then abused, did not really long outlive his and Johnson's Presidencies.

It really would have required much more than merely the Civil War to have constitutionally united the ab initio disunited states.

Powerful enduring states throughout history have been hegemonic lead states either within confederations or governing empires.

Washington is merely a geographic dot on the map, a dream empire in someone's ass, not a place, a region, a territory, a country, not a place even with a real history other than the tensil fake history of Washington politics. 

A dirty spot on the map of historic colonial states surrounding it.

Washington can exist now merely virtually, which is how it was really always somewhat envisioned by the founders, have a small token uncontentious neutral spot somewhere, really a faux place, to be frank, a place where nothing really but the federal government existed or was wanted or could be accomodated;

have meetings in this state or that, at intervals, have the Supreme Court do a circuit of nearby state supreme courts to meet itself at their facility, Congress can meet virtually anywhere. 

As far as I am concerned, the President can live anywhere and everywhere in the world, as the founders of his globalist not nationalist ideology envisioned.