Full Sovereignty Exercised By American States

50 states of the American union with limited sovereignty exercised full sovereignty by electing Donald Trump president of a government in Washington that is not a state and is not fully sovereign. Their actions defy and upset all notions about what makes a state sovereign. People in states outside the American union fear joining it because they might lose their sovereignty and be ruled by some abstract and all-powerful government far away in some distant city. It would not be so. American states parcel out their sovereignty assigning part of it to a central government and keeping the greater part for themselves in their state governments. The citizens of each state are free to live and vote in any of 50 states by choosing one to reside in. They vote for representatives to the legislatures of 2 governments neither of which are fully sovereign. Ironically, they would be more subject to undemocratic domination by the central government of a union of states if each state retained its full sovereignty. Joseph Stalin of Russia once ruled a union of 15 fully sovereign soviet states as a dictator. It is easier to rule a group of sovereign states despotically than states who have designated a portion of their sovereignty to a president who must be elected democratically every 4 years and shares his power with a Congress and a Supreme Court. It is impossible for a president in Washington to dictate laws to citizens living under laws of their own states which they themselves make and that they are all free to challenge in federal and state courts and to overturn. The Washington government does have the power to make laws necessary to unify commerce, police actions and the legal system but it has only the measured amount necessary to assure universal rights to all citizens of the union and to keep it together. We saw in the presidential election states exercising their democratic power to control a central government  located outside their state in a federal district. Nation-states throughout the world should not fear joining such a union by applying to Congress for admission. They will all keep the government they have and gain a second one in Washington. They will join the 50 states of our union and exercise the same power states used to elect Donald Trump president.

Daniel McNeill

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