Self-evident Truths

  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 states 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.

Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have 7 performances during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York in July and August at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.

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Loving the one your’re with can come back to haunt you. A new comedy about finding your true identity.

Performances: July 18 2:30 pm. July 20 6:30 pm. July 24 6:30 pm. July 26 7:00 pm. July 28 8:30 pm. July 31 8:00 pm. August 2 3:30 pm.

A New League Of Nations

The American government in Washington has been supporting a worldwide network of states for more than a hundred years. President Wilson outlined his vision of a unified world in 1919. His League of Nations was rejected by the US Senate but the US has nonetheless been continually using its power for world unity. Under US protection, some nation-states have achieved 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 American 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”. Instead of relying on the United States to provide worldwide peace, foreign states should apply to the American Congress for admission to the American union. They should transform the United States of America to the United States of the World and guarantee for themselves and for the world  the secure political institutions necessary for worldwide economic and democratic development.

Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have 7 performances during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York in July at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.

The famous writer, Nathan Mauer, married four times to women, marries a man but behavior  in his macho past disrupts his happy new identity. A comedy about the difficulties of living with any identity permanently.

tickets $20.00 : https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/27845

The Unalienable Right To Universal Citizenship

Anyone anywhere in the world should have the unalienable right to live and to work and to have full rights as a citizen in any state in a great union of states worldwide. How can any American disagree? Why should we not believe that millions of people will be able to move freely some day from state to state worldwide? We can do this now now in our union of 50 states and we should try to add new states. The men who wrote the Constitution did not mean that the right to universal citizenship should be restricted to our original 13 states. In Article IV, Section 3, of the Constitution, they wrote, “New states may be admitted by the Congress into this Union.” And that is what the Congress did. Over a period of 200 years it admitted 37 new states. Was any American belittled when Hawaii was admitted in 1959? How can it not be of momentous importance to us and our descendants if another 25 or another 50 states are admitted to our union? People from every race on the planet are already living among us in our states with the right to full citizenship in any state they choose. They come to the US to develop themselves in a political environment that guarantees them universal rights that are denied  them in their native states. Their states should also become parts of our union. Nothing will develop any state anywhere as well as union with states whose central government forces states to govern their people democratically and to allow them universal freedoms.

Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have 7 performances during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York in July at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.

The famous writer, Nathan Mauer, married four times to women, marries a man but behavior  in his macho past disrupts his happy new identity. A comedy about the difficulties of living with any identity permanently.

tickets $20.00 : https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/27845

Everyone Should Become An American

No American will ever live in a fully sovereign state. All other peoples on the globe live under fully sovereign governments that can order them to do whatever they want them to do. We have no such governments. We have many federal, state and local governments but none of them are fully sovereign and all of them must by law be democracies. We have rights under the Constitution and judgments by our Supreme Court that directly support the freedom of individuals against the power of all our governments. No law passed by any legislature is absolute. All of them can be appealed in our courts and possibly be overturned. Our political system, despite the unjust inequalities in our society and in spite of mean and piddling politicians, is blessed. It is our moral duty to try our best to extend our system to all of humanity worldwide. Everyone in the world should become an American, meaning all men and women should live among one another in a worldwide union of states with human rights guaranteed to them by law and free from the anti human powers of fully sovereign governments.

Daniel McNeill

A National-international Government

   We are in the habit of calling our government in Washington a national government  but its actions are almost never purely national and most are national-international combined or else are particular actions that benefit only certain groups or individuals. Washington’s sovereign power over the military is used almost exclusively internationally. Its sovereign power over diplomacy has produced an array of diplomatic buildings all over the globe whose size and staffing show they are not used exclusively in the interest of individual US citizens. The commerce power of the Congress can be used directly for the economic benefit of all Americans but it rarely is. The Social Security Act of 1935 is not funded by federal taxes. President Obama’s healthcare plan is the first direct aid to all the American people that is national. It uses federal taxes to directly benefit Americans but many federal and state politicians oppose it and want to get rid of it. We Americans simply do not have a national government that is exclusively national. We fund the Federal Government but our Constitution sets up a government with powers that do not need to be used only nationally. And for the most part, they are not.

Washington’s actions benefit our 50 states and states throughout the world indirectly. Washington acts mainly as an international government and this is how it should act. When we argue that foreign states should join our union, we claim that they would join a union whose central government is already international.
Daniel McNeill
Go to the website of The United States of the World usoftheworld.com

The New Holy Roman Empire

   The great medieval Italian poet Dante specifically mentions in his political writings that the Roman Empire was divinely chosen. God revealed his approval of Rome by performing miracles to assure the domination of the world by the Romans. Dante believed that the laws of states expressed natural laws which were destined by God to create the happiness of all men. Furthermore, he believed there should be a universal superstate embracing all nations and countries that would prevent wars between states and guide states to rule men in their jurisdictions justly by laws derived from god-given natural laws that lead to universal brotherhood. For Dante to rise to such a grand idea of humanity’s political needs in a medieval Italy torn apart by savage intercity wars is amazing. What would Dante write if he lived now in America and witnessed that 50 sovereign states were already unified by a government in Washington with the powers of a superstate? Would he not walk among us Americans holding in his hands a copy of our Constitution and tell each of us that our sacred document embodies universal principles of human rights that it is our duty to extend to all our brothers on our globe? If he succeeded in thus convincing us of our union’s divine destiny, the blissful knowledge could then be communicated to the greatest of humanity’s poets that the powerful democratic government in Washington with its military spread worldwide to counter evil is not a state. Humanity already has a super powerful central government ready to assume the role of the central government of a worldwide union of states and it is itself not a state! Washington is a perfect solution for both great and small states yearning for worldwide union but fearful of submitting to the power of another state! Washington can not become a new Rome with the power to rule over states but it can have the glory of being the seat of the central democratic government of a world union of states, the center of something like a new worldwide Holy Roman Empire.
Daniel McNeill
Read other arguments for a United States of the World at: usoftheworld.com/world-unity
Read a complete novel, "Whacks,Women and Wanderings In the Soul" by Daniel McNeill at: usoftheworld.com/fiction

A Universal Political System

   The American system up till now has been nationalism at home and abroad. Americans have been sold the idea that they are members of a nation-state rather than a union of states. People around the globe have been sold the idea that the nation-state is the best form of political organization possible. The American idea for global military and economic domination has been to keep everyone everywhere locked up behind fixed national borders. Meanwhile the American military, American diplomats, American corporations have been roaming the world, openly or secretly, for good or for bad, just as if no nation or any national borders were obstacles to their search globally for riches and power.

   The foundation of the system was the nation. Since the Second World War, new nations have joined old nations all over the globe, but economic globalization has brought with it universally available technologies that are sapping the strength of nations. Nothing was more secure once than a nation with citizens who could not communicate with foreigners and who were unarmed and tightly controlled by a national police. Now worldwide communication is easy and everyone can protest against authorities and find weapons to promote political disorder. The state must remain a vital center promoting the freedom and prosperity of its citizens, but the nation-state as such has outlived its usefulness and some of them are collapsing inwardly in civil wars.

  We Americans should begin to take our political system seriously. We are not a nation-state. Our 50 states are firmly established with definite sovereign powers and they are not in any danger of collapsing. Our loyalty to our Constitution and to the Federal Government it established is the basis of our unity. We should not be afraid to declare to the world that we got rid of the nation-state once and for all by 1789 and that our union of states is a universal political system that states worldwide should join if they wish to preserve what is worthwhile in their present political condition and to begin to live authentically in a globalized world.

Daniel McNeill
For more, go to the website of The United States of the World uspftheworld.com

The United States of North America

   The 31 states of Mexico, the 10 provinces of Canada, and the 7 states of Central America joined under the American Constitution with the 50 states of America would make the greatest union of sovereign states ever seen, or even imagined, in world history. Citizens in  97 states would send senators and representatives to Washington to create laws protecting universal human rights and freedoms for nearly 520 million people. Every citizen would have representation in state governments forced by law to be democratic and uncorrupt by the federal power of one central government to which they would also send elected representatives. Would not the right to move freely to any of 97 states, to enjoy full citizenship merely by establishing residence, and to be free without any of the present legal restraints to work or run a business anywhere on a huge continent - would this not be the most wonderful possible political and economic perspective for all North Americans from the North Pole to the Panama Canal?

   Yes, it would be no more than the most flimsy sort of imagining if it were not really and practically possible because this type of union already exists in the 50 American states and the American Constitution gives the Congress the power in Article IV Section 3  to admit new states. If all North American politicians acted morally in the true interest of all North Americans, they could give us the benefits of the free movement of all capital and all labor in a huge union of free citizens free to live in any state they choose with full universal democratic rights.  We have already on the North American continent from the North Pole to the southern border of Mexico no nation-state. History has been pushing North America for thousands of years to develop without nations. Let’s finally go all the way and create for ourselves the fantastic benefit of living in 97 united states.

Daniel McNeill