Will the small states always be incompetent?

Take the civil war.

What was the solution ex post? Buy out the slave states over a period, regulate involuntary servitude out of the system. Give the small states something better than total destruction. We have the same problem, the Constitution is Law, and we have to buy the small states. But we learnt a bit from the civil war, we have Due Process power, so the buy out of the states is a two way deal.

We are buying competence from the small state and Due Process is the market grease that invests in more competence. Working this problem exactly the way fintech find constraints and solves them. We have the ledger, the Constitution and census. The ledger costs money,ledgers are congested. We pay market price once a budget period, we buy competence from the small states in a fair traded pit.