Crossing All Borders Everywhere Freely

   An immigrant arrived recently in Italy from Kenya in Africa. He said in English to reporters that he came for a better life. That is what I want too. A better life. If it means leaving the state where I was born, then so be it. States can still be states without national borders keeping people out. I and the immigrant from Kenya and everyone in the world should have the right to go and live in any state to live a better life. It makes sense.

   I have so far in my life lived and worked in 5 states. In each state I had the right to register to vote simply because I took up residence in it. None of them had the right to prevent me from living in them with full democratic rights. 45 other states in the American union of states are also open to me. In no matter what state I live, I am subject to laws of the state and also to laws of the central government of the union located in Washington in a federal district. I vote for the governor of the state I live in and for the president of the US. I vote for representatives to the legislatures of two governments, one state and one federal.The citizens of American states have all the democratic power they need because they vote by right for political leaders for two governments neither of which are fully sovereign.The federal government in Washington is not a state, is not located in a state and it like all the 50 states does not possess by law full sovereignty. American politicians in 51 legislatures create laws that can be legally challenged by any citizen and overturned in both state and federal courts. States can still be states without full sovereignty but only in a union of states willing to grant in a written constitution limited sovereign powers to a central government. The American union proves that politicians can recover from addiction to the political drug sending a hallucination flashing through their minds convincing them that they and their citizens can not be free unless they live locked up behind national borders in a fully sovereign nation-state. Nation-states should apply to the Congress in Washington for admission to the American union and completely cure their politicians of a bad habit. Then we can one day all live in any state in the world we wish to try to find like the Kenyan immigrant a better life.

Daniel McNeill

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