The goal of any union of states must be to make each state secure and sovereign even though the central government of any union must be given sovereign powers. The key to resolving this contradiction is the principle that the sovereign powers granted the central government should be mainly military and diplomatic, powers that will diminish or disappear because unnecessary when the union has enough states worldwide to make traditional wars impossible and diplomacy of minimal necessity. This is the main principle behind the American union but, tragically, a world populated by independent states who retain the sovereign power to make war has created much more sovereign power for the government in Washington than was intended by the American constitution. The Constitution granted the central government in Washington full sovereign power only over the military and diplomacy. If 50 more states joined the 50 American states, war would be tactically eliminated worldwide so that the US military and diplomatic powers would have minimal or no importance. The sovereign powers of states would be enhanced all the more especially given that the main goal of the union was to secure and strengthen them.
The European Union of 28 sovereign states did not give its central government exclusive war and diplomatic powers. Its second error was its attempt to govern by a weak central government with thousands of representatives coming from all the districts of all its states. The government of a union does not need to be set up to function perfectly as a democracy. Democracy should be the business of its state governments. The central government should be run by many fewer representatives all the more that its main goal should be to diminish its powers in proportion as its union expands and makes war powers and diplomatic powers less necessary or unnecessary.
The American union began by limiting the sovereign powers of its states and the European union began by not limiting them. Neither is presently successful and perhaps the best that can be said is that the American union is failing at least having been established with the correct principles for a real and substantial union.
Daniel McNeill
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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
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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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