it is strange that power is divided in the federal government, but at the state level, the states extend authoritarian control over the counties. This is a perfect case where no state in the United States actually has a Republican form of government in the sense that it’s counties are all satrapies of the state.
There is a movement for counties to depart from state and moved to another. Extending additional sovereignty to the counties, This switch of counties between between states will no longer be necessary.