Citizens of national states find joining the American union of states unattractive because they feel they would be subjecting their state to rule by another state with its center in Washington. They are wrong because the central government they would send elected representatives to is not the government of any state, is not a state, and is not located in any state. The US government located in the District of Columbia possesses no national territory. The really central question might be not whether or not independent states will join a union of states but which union. There are now 4. The Mexican union of 31 states, the Canadian union of 10 provinces, the American union of 50 states, and the European Union of 28 states. 119 states spread over one quarter of the globe have already agreed to some degree of limited sovereignty in order to benefit from the power of a union. The force behind the movement towards states with limited sovereignty has been and is now the United States. The Washington government, once established in 1790 by a Constitution based on advanced political ideas of European thinkers, admitted 37 new states over a period of 170 years. Mexico set up a union of states sharing sovereignty with a central government in imitation of Washington’s system. Canada was made a union of provinces after the American Civil War by the imperial British government fearing an invasion by the US. The European Union is the result of a long bloody history of national states continually fighting one another in devastating wars. It is also to some extent a reaction against the power gained by the American union of states. The 4 unions are great achievements of statecraft but one union of the 119 states now already with limited sovereignty would be an achievement that is both wonderful and realistic. The key feature of any union should be that states limit their sovereignty as little as possible. In the 4 unions as now constituted, the central governments are forever increasing their power at states’ expense by taking up national agendas for themselves that are often unnecessary. It is important to understand that the bigger the union, the less the central government is capable of taking upon itself national responsibilities. If the 119 states now in 4 unions, became one union with its center in Washington (it would be an easy matter to have the government half a year in Washington, half in Brussels) wars between states on our planet would no longer be possible, sovereignty in all states would be stronger, individual rights of citizens and businesses would be guaranteed by universal written laws, and unbounded economic and personal opportunities would be more available for individuals free to live and work and create in any one of 119 states with full legal and voting rights simply by taking up residency. National independent states would find themselves outside these blessed new territories but they would also be allowed to enter paradise by applying to the Congress in Washington which has the right to admit them to the union spelled out in Article IV Section 3 of the Constitution.
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
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.
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