The future of the world belongs to those who can best form a just union of sovereign states. The present system of independent sovereign states is no system at all. It is dysfunctional compared with the necessity evident to all that our globe can not be made healthy unless states make a united effort against global warming and other dangers to the natural environment. Our world needs desperately a union of states each with limited sovereign power governed by a written Constitution assigning limited sovereign powers to a central government and guaranteeing democratic governments and fundamental human rights to states in the union that no government has the right to take away. Amazingly, the United States of America has been constructing such a system for a period of 170 years up until 1959. During those years it admitted 37 states to its union. Now neither Americans nor their government in Washington seem interested in doing any longer what they have been doing throughout their history, admitting new states.
Russia disunited its union of 15 states in 1992. President Putin has said that this was the greatest political mistake of the 20th century. Why then does he not turn the present Russian political system into a United States of Russia? He can use the American Constitution as a guide and adapt it to Russia. He would need a central government located in a federal district. Moscow would be become such a district and would be the seat of the central government. Militarily and diplomatically there would be no change. The government in Moscow like the government in Washington would have absolute control over all military and diplomatic activities and would receive income taxes from individuals and businesses located in every state of the union. Russians could divide the present territory of Russia into several states and admit them to the union just as the government in Washington created states in its union from territories in America. Once the union of states is set up in Russia, independent foreign states would be invited to join. It may be that well developed foreign states would not be attracted to the union but there are many poorer states worldwide that would be happy to join.
Russia has feared a real decentralization of power throughout its history. It has never understood that decentralization does not mean a loss of central power. The decentralization in the American union strengthened the central power in Washington. By imitating the American Constitution and the practices that developed from it, Russia would decentralize not only political and judicial power but also its banking system. It should imitate the Federal Reserve Banking system of the US. Allowing free and independent banks throughout the states of the new union to create the money supply for the entire union is the key to a vital and prosperous union of states. It allows unlimited economic development in states and sends portions of the money earned by individuals and businesses to the central government in taxes and then this money is recirculated back through the states producing more economic development.
President Putin is justly worried about military and economic pressure being used against him by Washington. Why does he not create a rival United States of Russia to compete politically with the United States of America globally?
Daniel McNeill
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Daniel McNeill
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