We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, Property, the pursuit of Happiness, and Citizenship in a democratic state of their choosing. To secure such rights, Governments should be instituted among men with limited sovereign powers in order to prevent politicians from assuming dictatorial powers. Until the present century, independent national states required unlimited sovereignty to form national armies capable of defending states from attacks by enemy states. In the 50 united states of America, state armies are both unnecessary and illegal. In independent national sates throughout the world, national armies have become less and less necessary because the American Federal Government has assumed the responsibility of protecting foreign states from interstate wars. It backs up this responsibility at a cost of nearly 600 billion dollars a year by maintaining more than two and a half million personnel in its armed forces, military bases throughout the world, and a naval fleet present in every ocean. By joining the 50 united states as newly admitted states, national armies of new states, which sometimes are used to repress the democratic rights of their people, will become obsolete. The Federal Government of the 50 united states of North America and the Pacific Ocean has already assumed some duties of a world government partly to prevent laws and policies of national states from impeding the freedom of multinational corporations to conduct business worldwide unrestricted by national boundaries. As national states apply for admission to the American union to the Congress in Washington and are accepted by the Congress, the transition of the United States of America to the United States of the World would become gradually a reality. This extensive new world union would guarantee a democratic government in every state and make more and more secure and more general the movement throughout the world of labor and capital wherever opportunities for employment draw them.

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When American banks created and lent out over $8 billion in real estate loans to people unable to pay their mortgages, it lead to a terrible worldwide economic depression in 2007. The American union of states and the European Union faced a crisis and had to take action. The American government in Washington possessed a Congress with full constitutional power over a huge inflow of tax monies of more than  $4 trillion. It also received an inflow of billions of dollars yearly from US bonds sold worldwide mostly to foreign banks. Congress allowed one gigantic bank to fail and rescued another by borrowing $250 billion and loaning funds to it to save it. Between 2008 and 2012, the Federal Government borrowed almost $6 trillion to spend and stimulate economies nationally and internationally. President Bush in 2008 created a $168 billion stimulus package and President Obama created one in 2009 worth $787 billion. Federal Reserve Banks, banks of a central banking system independent of any government, dropped their discount rates for loans to banks so low that they were nearly giving out money free of charge to private American banks to use to back loans to businesses to stimulate the economy. The massive supply of money the US government injected into the American and worldwide economy drastically reduced the value of the US dollar. The European Central Bank of the European Union, located in the German nation-state, did the opposite. Germany fought pitilessly using the central bank’s power to force private banks in other states of the European Union to restrict credit and thus stop the needed expansion of the money supply. Germany forced other nation-state governments in the EU to reduce public spending benefiting their citizens and to introduce measures of austerity that eliminated jobs. The American central government acted like the head of a real union of states by creating and spending money massively year after year to stimulate its own economy and the world economy. Germany used the European Union as though it were not a union of states at all but just one big state ruled by Germany. It fought to control the value of its own wealth by refusing to devalue the Euro and thus create higher demand for products throughout Europe and more jobs. A union of states that has no independent central government constituted to use its power to aid all its states and instead can be manipulated selfishly by one state is not much more than an association of sovereign states of little value in an economic crisis.

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Leiden in Holland where the pilgrims settled and worked for several years was a flourishing city of 100,000 souls with weaving establishments and a book printing and publishing industry. The pilgrims prospered finding many forms of employment in an industrialized city. Nothing counted for them but the truth of the Christian religion and the spiritual life it made possible, but still their minds were infected by the middle-class ideology that made towns like Leiden hum with rational disciplined merchants and entrepreneurs. When the pilgrims landed in Plymouth in 1620, the native Indians supplied them with corn and enough corn seed to plant a life-saving crop the following spring. They learned from the Indians rational strategies about how to live and thrive in the glorious unending wilderness of America, strategies that had nothing to do with the rational strategies suited to middle-class industrialized Leiden. So when the pilgrims sat down with their Indian friends and neighbors at the first Thanksgiving feast, the three elements always present ever afterwards in American life and history were present in the minds of the men and women enjoying the feast. The spirit of unbridled freedom that the American wilderness made possible was already present in the Indians and was beginning to gain ground in the minds of the colonists. The second element, independent Christian spirituality, was deeply grounded in the spirits of the colonists for they were believing Protestant Christians. They had been indoctrinated in the third element in England and in the industrialized city of Leiden, the middle-class doctrine that a rational disciplined and educated approach to work in an industrialized society will always yield economic success. The spirit of the Indians unfortunately was fortified with only one element, the deep American belief that life without freedom is worthless.

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As the leader of the free world, the American Federal government has been trying since the Second World War to unite the world by influencing  governments of nation-states to be democracies and at home it does not allow states in the American union to be anything else. It has great worldwide power partly because most of the work of government in the US is routinely done by state governments. This frees Washington to pursue political goals on an international as well as on a national level. In any union of states, sovereignty must be divided between states and their central government. Sovereignty is already divided in the American union between the 50 states and the Federal Government so that only the American political system already possesses the framework that would be necessary in a world union.
     We  Americans have been living with the task of setting up and living with a central government of an interstate union with limited sovereign power since the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, two other grand unions of peoples were prominent. Britain ruled an empire at the start of the Second World War with 458 million people, one fifth of the world’s population, in colonies, dependencies and territories worldwide. The  other large union of states other than the American union was the Soviet Union which had 15 states. The American and Russian unions united with the British Empire and the 3 allied global powers destroyed fascism in Europe and won the Second World War. After the war, the Cold War was a struggle between the American and Soviet unions. With the breakup of the Soviet Union and the British Empire, only the US union survived with its political system unchanged. Its central government is not only a great power struggling to unite the world for peaceful and democratic development but also has the political structure to be the central government of a worldwide union of states because it is  not a state, is not located in a state, and is not sovereign.

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No state that petitions the American Congress to join our union should believe it is about to enter a political and economic paradise. America is not heaven and it is often hellish to live in America if you can’t find a good job. But in whatever condition you find yourself, America does supply you with democracy and unalienable rights. Some of our states have been democracies since 1787 and all of our 50 states are now solid democracies. They are democratic because they choose to be democratic but also because the Federal Government must by law not allow them to be anything else. Article IV, Section 4 of the US Constitution reads, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government”. Full sovereignty in a state means that citizens must obey laws without the power to challenge them. Every law passed by any of our American governments at any level can be challenged in courts and overturned. France used its sovereign power to establish by law same-sex marriage in 2013. In 2004, the supreme court of the state of Massachusetts heard an appeal from a judgment in a lower court against  same-sex marriage and ruled that Massachusetts did not have the right to deny marriage to anyone. A democratic nation-state like France awards citizens rights from a top-down position of supreme sovereign power. In a state like Massachusetts with limited sovereignty, democracy operates both top-down and bottom-up. One citizen, challenging a court’s judgment against same-sex marriage, established from the bottom-up the universal right in Massachusetts for all its citizens to marry.


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A look at the map of the United States with a basic knowledge of key events in American history should convince anyone that an extraordinary revolutionary unfolding and development of humanity unlike anything in its past somehow happened on our continent. Our rebellion against Britain would never have succeeded unless she decided finally to let us go and be rid of us.  She was tired of trying to conquer and rule crude uneducated swarms of white men with their black slaves scattered about in a vast wilderness. Britain understood that humanity’s adventure in America would never work. She let us go free to learn for ourselves that we were condemned in advance to futility. She took Canada instead of America and was sure that something would stop the swarms of humanity to the south moving west, the wilderness or the Indians or the Mississippi River or the French and Spanish territories. We would never reach the west coast and the Pacific Ocean and what kind of government could ever rule and dominate such vast swirls of humanity of every race coming from all over the world and always on the move west in spite of the great overwhelming difficulties? Well, the most amazing event in our history was the creation of a political system that establishes the most free and the most just distribution of political power that has ever ruled or ever will rule humanity. Britain got rid of us once and for all and we got rid once and for all of the nation-state. Not one of our fifty states will ever be a nation and our grand and just and powerful government in Washington will never be a state! Good-bye nation-state! You strangled humanity to death for centuries but you will never get your deadly grip on peoples in the states of our union or in any new state that joins us! 

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Can anything be more ridiculous than Italy giving up its sovereignty by becoming a US state? No, but Italy would keep its sovereignty. James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, wrote that the powers of the Federal Government “are few and defined” and those of the States are “numerous and indefinite”. The US states possess sovereignty, their Federal Government does not. The states, by laws established in the Constitution, have given the government in Washington D.C exclusive sovereignty only over military matters and international diplomacy. Italy would give up its right to make war and would disband its diplomatic corps. Its central government in Rome would continue passing laws as before but a few laws that are judged by federal courts to be contrary to the Constitution could be cancelled. Generally, this means Italy could not pass laws contrary to basic unalienable human rights that should be guaranteed to citizens in any state anywhere in the world. Washington also has the power to regulate commerce but its income of over 5 trillion dollars a year is based on letting businessmen operate freely with a few fundamental regulations necessary for a prosperous and honest economic system. Italy would go on much as before but it would send elected representatives now to 2 democratic governments, one in Rome and one in Washington. Its citizens, according to the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, would be “citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside.”  Italians who choose to live in Italy would therefore continue to be Italian citizens. They would have double citizenship in a worldwide union of states where none of many governments, federal, state and local, is fully sovereign. 

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Italy The Fifty-first State?

Italy needs to modernize its economy to compete better globally but the truth it must face is that no state can solve its economic problems and create for itself a dynamic new prosperity by remaining a sovereign nation. Nations are set up to solve problems top-down and within national borders but postmodern solutions require also a transnational approach. The Italian auto company Fiat stopped acting nationally within Italy and in the European Union and boldly bought Chrysler which gave it the right to do business also across the borders of 50 American states. It is now a political and economic player in the EU and in the US as well as in Italy. Fiat has boldly freed itself from economic slavery within the national borders of Italy. It operates freely without interstate tariffs in 78 states worldwide. Why not solve the serious economic problems of Italians by giving each the political right to operate like Fiat outside of their national borders? 
    The American Constitution reads in Article IV, Section 3, “New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union.” Italy the fifty-first state? Unthinkable! Absolute total nonsense! Just imagine Italy accepted by the American Congress so that 61 million Italians, who have now the right to work where they wish in 28 European states, would gain the legal right to live and to work and to vote and to run for public office and to become citizens in any one of 51 states in North America and on the Hawaiian Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean as well as in Italy merely by taking up residence in one of them! Why is such a state thinkable for Corporations like Fiat but unthinkable for Italians? It would be a revolution! It would begin to shake up national structures in the postmodern world on a scale like the conquest of Gaul by Caesar in the ancient world. But it would be a secure revolution. Investment money would flow into Italy from investors worldwide because they would know that Italy as a US state is a secure democracy backed by the US Federal Government’s military, judicial and economic powers. Italians affected badly by their Jobs Act would be free to move to fifty new states to seek opportunities not found in Europe or in Italy. All it requires is a referendum in Italy. If Italians vote yes and the American Congress passes a bill admitting Italy as a state, a new world will be born with the city of Rome again a grand presence in a vast territory of united peoples.
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The American central government in Washington has been supporting a worldwide network of states for more than a hundred years. Under its protection, some nation-states have achieved democracy and prosperity by specializing in certain industries and using the world as a marketplace. American businessmen have exported their capital and their industries all over the globe. The worldwide capitalistic organization of the world is an ongoing business. But globalization is destabilizing nation-states. The nation-state has lost its main function, the protection of its citizens from invasion. Now wars are being fought within nation-states, not between them. The world needs solidly established states with democratic governments free from corruption and civil war. The Federal Government guarantees each of our American states a democratic government and protects each from invasion. Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution reads, “The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government and shall protect each of them from invasion”. The transformation of the United States of America to the United States of the World will guarantee within states worldwide the institutions necessary for their secure economic and democratic development.
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Americans Are Blind To Their Own Condition

     Sovereign states manage the actions of their subjects and try to direct them towards good behavior but whoever has power in a sovereign state can act in his own interest. The evil actions of individuals are punished by states but a state is not subject to punishment for its evil acts against its own citizens or against citizens of foreign states if it is sovereign. Why is it that we Americans do not realize that we alone of all people in the world live in states where sovereignty is limited? We enjoy in our union of states the benefits and freedoms that result from limiting state sovereignty. We should be shouting to the world that the right to live and work in any one of 50 states and to enjoy full citizenship in any democratic state of our union by simply taking up residence in it is the ultimate human political blessing. We should be passionate about extending our benefits to foreign states by admitting them as new states in our union. But for some reason we seem blind ourselves to the extraordinary benefits of our system and we have no interest in adding new states to our union even though since it began over 200 years ago we have admitted 37 new states.
    A third of Americans live in poverty or struggle to remain not far above poverty. The majority of people outside the United States and other developed countries live in poverty. Poor people in the world have no capital to invest in their economies to produce jobs. In some poor countries the only avenues to wealth are politics and corruption. Plenty of capital and know-how is available worldwide to create jobs, but poor sovereign states ruled by tyrants are not attractive to investors. The best way to develop them is to invite them to become states in our union of states. Then they will draw in investments from investors worldwide looking for totally secure opportunities. And we Americans would have new states in our union needing development where we could use our skills securely and profitably creating wealth for the world's poor and for ourselves.
   But we are blind to our condition. And we are blind to the immense possibilities for good that our political system could do for ourselves and the world. We do not see who we are and where we should be headed.

Daniel McNeill





        

The government that has organized the largest union of states on earth is itself not a state. Between 1787 and 1790, thirteen independent states on the east coast of the Atlantic Ocean in North America ratified a Constitution and created a central government with strictly limited sovereign powers in order to create a more perfect union of their states. The states did not give themselves a one-word name because they were thirteen. Their new central government was not a state and therefore possessed no state territory. But it had to have some location so the founding fathers  took small portions of land from the states of Virginia and Maryland and created the District of Columbia. A non-state was created and located in a district that was but a small dot on a map of the original thirteen united states in North America. Despite it’s tiny portion of land, the new government was given among its powers three grand powers: it had exclusive control of all military and diplomatic activities and it alone was given the power to admit new states to the union. From the admission of Vermont in 1791 to that of Hawaii in 1959, the Congress located in the District of Columbia has passed bills admitting thirty-seven new states to the united states. If it continues to admit new states, it would be acting consistently with its past actions and no new state admitted could complain that it had been joined in union to its fellow states by a state.

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Everyone at some time or other looks for buried treasure without much luck. In this blog, we’re going to look for buried treasure in our American political system. The motivation that will set us digging are the flashes of light that do arise from it sometimes even though it is mostly used by selfish people to grab power for themselves. One fact should set us digging: none of us, not one American, will ever live in a fully sovereign state. This sets us radically apart from all the other political treasure-seekers in the world. They all have somewhere in some form a fully sovereign government that can order them to do whatever it wants them to do. We don’t.

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