The American Revolution Can Happen Anywhere

    In 1790, 13 independent states in North America accepted a Constitution that limited their sovereignty. The document made a provision in Article IV Section 3 to admit new states and the Federal Congress admitted 37 new states over 170 years up to the state of Hawaii in 1959. A people composed of no one race and of no one religion was free forever to live and work and worship and vote in any state out of 50 simply by freely choosing to reside in one.

    The freedom to go anywhere to any state at will across any border produces a groundlessness in the soul. Americans are nationless. A Man Without a Country, published in 1863 by Edward Everett Hale, was a popular tale about an American man condemned by a court to live out his life on ships at sea without any knowledge of happenings in the United States. Great American writers like Poe and Thoreau sought what was substantial only within themselves. No nation outside of themselves attracted their hearts and minds because none existed.

   But now the world is becoming American. Nation-states  are either collapsing because of civil wars or wobbling towards disintegration because of corruption and gross mismanagement caused by unworkable political systems chained to outdated, top-down nationalistic central.governments. Peoples worldwide are becoming groundless like Americans and their states can not become stable, free and prosperous unless they take upon themselves new and more advanced political structures. Nation-states should petition the Congress in Washington to be admitted as new American states and escape as Americans did in 1790 the slavery inflicted on commerce and people by national borders. The American revolution of 1790 can also happen right now in any state worldwide.

Daniel McNeill

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