The institutions of the American union of states make it impossible for any government state or federal to make any law that cannot be challenged by individual citizens and overturned. Such a political system is what every state worldwide needs and we Americans are fortunate to have it already. This extension of democracy means that American citizens do not just vote for representatives to sit somewhere in a body and make laws. It also means that because they have a written Constitution, a union of states and both state and federal court systems, every citizen can appeal to any one of hundreds of courts to possibly overturn and void every law passed by any of our 51 governments. No other people anywhere have this right because they are all controlled in mononational states by one fully sovereign central government possessing all the power and ruling from the top down. A parliament or legislature elected democratically is but one key to political freedom. We Americans have two keys and every people everywhere also need two. We have had them since the beginning of our union of states in 1790. Here is an example of the extended democratic power we possess and that we hope that every people in every state will soon possess by joining our union. The American Supreme Court heard a case on appeal from one individual and voted that any law passed by any state not allowing same-sex marriage is illegal. It was a great victory for a universal human right that no state anywhere should have the power to oppose by a law. Is it not a new form of democracy if citizens can vote for representatives to make their laws and also appeal to courts to overturn them?
Daniel McNeill
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