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You're perfectly fine with telling US states why they should surrender their soverignty to a top-heavy Federation, but here's an opportunity to put your intellectual money where your metaphorical mouth is: show us how much you believe in large centralized governments by telling us you'd accept in one where you were a member of a small minority.
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I'm not trying to get into a debate here (this one is messy enough and the US constitution is a pretty damn fine document anyway) but i assume your arguement is it's easier to push change in a smaller government than a larger more monolithic one right? At the same time though, can't the feds override state law anyway, al la californian medial pot laws?
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In some ways we're more like what the EU wants to be when it grows up, but in other ways we're 'way different because we're traditionally wary of collectivisim and socialism; as the Soviet experience has shown they don't scale well.
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The United Sates of Europe was recently a suggested name but it'll be a long, long time before the EU resembles anything like the US, the history and politics is jsut soo much. I can see some areas merging like military but that kind of soverign control? Nope.
Personally i just think democracy doesn't scale well.