The American Constitution of 1790 created a new government that was not a state and not located in any state and had no fully sovereign powers except over the military and diplomacy. Thirteen sovereign states gave up forever their right to make war on foreign states or have diplomatic relations with them. One man, a president, was made the commander-in-chief of the military and diplomacy. These powers are ordinarily exercised by heads of states but in the United States the powers were assigned to one man who was not the head of any state. He was stateless but he had the power to make war on any state he wished backed up by thirteen states. Washington used its war power first in 1812 against Britain and last against Iraq in 2003. Washington had another major power granted by the Constitution. Article IV Section 3 gave Congress the power to admit new states. It used the power 37 times between 1791 with the admission of Vermont and 1959 with the admission of Hawaii. The central government of 13 states became the government of an empire of 50 states. It invited over the years more than 30 million immigrants from all over the world to live and work in any of its states with double citizenship both in the United States and in the state where they decided to live. Humanity at last had a vast continental and oceanic reach of states where it could live and create freely without living in the narrow and restricted environment of a nation-state.
But the power of a few men in the government in Washington is both a military threat to humanity and the only serious hope of secure freedom and peace for humanity in the future. What states in the world will dare to trust their people’s hope for a peaceful democratic and prosperous future to a stateless government in Washington with the power to make war on any state it wishes and at the same time to admit states to its union who are willing to give up forever, as did the 13 original American states, the power to make war? And where will they find the worldwide unity necessary to oppose the threat of Washington’s powers if they refuse the only real hope of worldwide unity that Washington offers?
Daniel McNeill
Daniel McNeill’s novella The End of All Beginnings is available at
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A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between
a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother
46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five
In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right
from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it
can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected
and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards
one liberating ending to all its beginnings.
Daniel McNeill
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