Start writing books or at least publishing to the City Journal or The Salisbury Review. Or at the very least publishing to http://culture11.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/

Just one minor disagreement. Do empires always increase the ego of their citizens? Cannot empires be… holy? (Not in the strictly religious sense of it.)

Alain de Benoist has some interesting arguments for the idea of an empire, as opposed to the idea of a nation: http://es.geocities.com/sucellus23/telos6.htm

(Though it a bit smells like big-ego Evola-ist posturing to me, there could be some truths in it.)

Arguments for states’ rights and rights generally are probably best constructed from Jefferson, or from the idea of moderation I’ve talked about above. I’m not saying that sort of rhetoric is wrong, just more like you don’t really want to reduce things to a power-logic if you want to get past the Constitution’s reasoning.

Note also that there is a “moderation” of a sorts when all is said and done: we are not as volatile a people as the states were during the Articles of Confederation, it seems.