The Origins of Baseball

Books on the history of baseball pay very little attention to the problem of how baseball originated and how and why it evolved to its present form. Ball games, with rubber balls or balls covered with rawhide, sometimes with bats three or four feet long, were universal among native Americans, going back many hundreds of years. The games often had a ceremonial character. Before the year 1000, in northern Mexico and Arizona, there were ball courts, similar to those of the Mayas of Central America, as large as 180 by 61 feet. The issue of some ancient American ball games was life or death. More recently some of the pilgrims building the Plymouth Plantation used to escape from the tedium of work by playing ball. Forms of baseball similar to the one we know were played by white Americans well before 1870, which is the generally accepted date for the finalization of baseball in its present form. The history of baseball since that time is, of course, well documented. Yet we know little more now about its early history and evolution than was known in 1907 when the Special Baseball Commission, made up of prominent baseball executives and two United States senators, announced, with insufficient evidence, that Abner Doubleday is the father of baseball.

Daniel McNeill

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The Civil War caused a radical power shift but it never resulted in the birth of a nation. However, there was a need to unify a post war America that welcomed and put to work 20 million immigrants. School children soon began pledging allegiance every school day to a nation. The Pledge of Allegiance expressed the altered state of the union thus: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.” The 13 red and white stripes stretched across the flag represent the 13 original states of the union. The stars on the flag represent the 13 original states and all subsequent states admitted to the union by bills passed by the Congress. The stars and stripes express the union’s complexity. The Pledge of Allegiance simplifies it. It states that all the states taken together are a republic. And it states that this republic is one nation. Since it is impossible logically and practically to form a nation out of 50 sovereign states and so many immigrants coming from all parts of the world, the pledge should be seen as an effort to strengthen loyalty to Washington. Old Americans and new Americans had to learn that there could be no liberty and justice for all and no union without a powerful government in Washington. A corrected pledge, one in harmony with our true history and a more authentic basis for our loyalty to Washington, would be: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republics for which it stands, one perpetual union indivisible with liberty and justice for all.” By 1959, there were 50 states and, adding the government in Washington, 51 republics. The Federal Government, although it is not a state, is certainly, with its duties outlined in the Constitution and its great powers, one republic. In the future we hope it will be the central government of a worldwide union of states and then it will be the head of something much greater than one nation.

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The 31 states of Mexico, the 10 provinces of Canada, and the 7 states of Central America joined under the American Constitution with the 50 states of America would make the greatest union of sovereign states ever seen, or even imagined, in world history. Citizens in  97 states would send senators and representatives to Washington to create laws protecting universal human rights and freedoms for nearly 520 million people. Every citizen would have representation in state governments forced by law to be democratic and uncorrupt by the federal power of one central government to which they would also send elected representatives. Would not the right to move freely to any of 97 states, to enjoy full citizenship merely by establishing residence, and to be free without any of the present legal restraints to work or run a business anywhere on a huge continent - would this not be the most wonderful possible political and economic perspective for all North Americans from the North Pole to the Panama Canal?

  Yes, it would be no more than the most flimsy sort of imagining if it were not really and practically possible because this type of union already exists in the 50 American states and the American Constitution gives the Congress the power in Article IV Section 3  to admit new states. If all North American politicians acted morally in the true interest of all North Americans, they could give us the benefits of the free movement of all capital and all labor in a huge union of free citizens free to live in any state they choose with full universal democratic rights.  We have already on the North American continent from the

North Pole to the southern border of Mexico no nation-state. History has been pushing North America for thousands of years to develop without nations. Let’s finally go all the way and create for ourselves the fantastic benefit of living in 97 united states.

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The American system up till now has been nationalism at home and abroad. Americans have been sold the idea that they are members of a nation-state rather than a union of states. People around the globe have been sold the idea that the nation-state is the best form of political organization possible. The American idea for global military and economic domination has been to keep everyone everywhere locked up behind fixed national borders. Meanwhile the American military, American diplomats, American corporations have been roaming the world, openly or secretly, for good or for bad, just as if no nation or any national borders were obstacles to their search globally for riches and power.

  The foundation of the system was the nation. Since the Second World War, new nations have joined old nations all over the globe, but economic globalization has brought with it universally available technologies that are sapping the strength of nations. Nothing was more secure once than a nation with citizens who could not communicate with foreigners and who were unarmed and tightly controlled by a national police. Now worldwide communication is easy and everyone can protest against authorities and find weapons to promote political disorder. The state must remain a vital center promoting the freedom and prosperity of its citizens, but the nation-state as such has outlived its usefulness and some of them are collapsing inwardly in civil wars.

 We Americans should begin to take our political system seriously. We are not a nation-state. Our 50 states are firmly established with definite sovereign powers and they are not in any danger of collapsing. Our loyalty to our Constitution and to the Federal Government it established is the basis of our unity. We should not be afraid to declare to the world that we got rid of the nation-state once and for all by 1789 and that our union of states is a universal political system that states worldwide should join if they wish to preserve what is worthwhile in their present political condition and to begin to live authentically in a globalized world.

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   The great medieval Italian poet Dante specifically mentions in his political writings that the Roman Empire was divinely chosen. God revealed his approval of Rome by performing miracles to assure the domination of the world by the Romans. Dante believed that the laws of states expressed natural laws which were destined by God to create the happiness of all men. Furthermore, he believed there should be a universal superstate embracing all nations and countries that would prevent wars between states and guide states to rule men in their jurisdictions justly by laws derived from god-given natural laws that lead to universal brotherhood. For Dante to rise to such a grand idea of humanity’s political needs in a medieval Italy torn apart by savage intercity wars is amazing. What would Dante write if he lived now in America and witnessed that 50 sovereign states were already unified by a government in Washington with the powers of a superstate? Would he not walk among us Americans holding in his hands a copy of our Constitution and tell each of us that our sacred document embodies universal principles of human rights that it is our duty to extend to all our brothers on our globe? If he succeeded in thus convincing us of our union’s divine destiny, the blissful knowledge could then be communicated to the greatest of humanity’s poets that the powerful democratic government in Washington with its military spread worldwide to counter evil is not a state. Humanity already has a super powerful central government ready to assume the role of the central government of a worldwide union of states and it is itself not a state! Washington is a perfect solution for both great and small states yearning for worldwide union but fearful of submitting to the power of another state! Washington can not become a new Rome with the power to rule over states but it can have the glory of being the seat of the central democratic government of a world union of states, the center of something like a new worldwide Holy Roman Empire.

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 We are in the habit of calling our government in Washington a national government  but its actions are almost never purely national and most are national-international combined or else are particular actions that benefit only certain groups or individuals. Washington’s sovereign power over the military is used almost exclusively internationally. Its sovereign power over diplomacy has produced an array of diplomatic buildings all over the globe whose size and staffing show they are not used exclusively in the interest of individual US citizens. The commerce power of the Congress can be used directly for the economic benefit of all Americans but it rarely is. The Social Security Act of 1935 is not funded by federal taxes. President Obama’s healthcare plan is the first direct aid to all the American people that is national. It uses federal taxes to directly benefit Americans but many federal and state politicians oppose it and want to get rid of it. We Americans simply do not have a national government that is exclusively national. We fund the Federal Government but our Constitution sets up a government with powers that do not need to be used only nationally. And for the most part, they are not.

Washington’s actions benefit our 50 states and states throughout the world indirectly. Washington acts mainly as an international government and this is how it should act. When we argue that foreign states should join our union, we claim that they would join a union whose central government is already international.

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No American will ever live in a fully sovereign state. All other peoples on the globe live under fully sovereign governments that can order them to do whatever they want them to do. We have no such governments. We have many federal, state and local governments but none of them are fully sovereign and all of them must by law be democracies. We have rights under the Constitution and judgments by our Supreme Court that directly support the freedom of individuals against the power of all our governments. No law passed by any legislature is absolute. All of them can be appealed in our courts and possibly be overturned. Our political system, despite the unjust inequalities in our society and in spite of mean and piddling politicians, is blessed. It is our moral duty to try our best to extend our system to all of humanity worldwide. Everyone in the world should become an American, meaning all men and women should live among one another in a worldwide union of states with human rights guaranteed to them by law and free from the anti human powers of fully sovereign governments.

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World Unity 20

Anyone anywhere in the world should have the unalienable right to live and to work and to have full rights as a citizen in any state in a great union of states worldwide. How can any American disagree? Why should we not believe that millions of people will be able to move freely some day from state to state worldwide? We can do this now in our union of 50 states and we should try to add new states. The men who wrote the Constitution did not mean that the right to universal citizenship should be restricted to our original 13 states. In Article IV, Section 3, of the Constitution, they wrote, “New states may be admitted by the Congress into this Union.” And that is what the Congress did. Over a period of 200 years it admitted 37 new states. Was any American belittled when Hawaii was admitted in 1959? How can it not be of momentous importance to us and our descendants if another 25 or another 50 states are admitted to our union? People from every race on the planet are already living among us in our states with the right to full citizenship in any state they choose. They come to the US to develop themselves in a political environment that guarantees them universal rights that are denied  them in their native states. Their states should also become parts of our union. Nothing will develop any state anywhere as well as union with states whose central government forces states to govern their people democratically and to allow them universal freedoms.

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World Unity 19

The government that has organized the largest union of states on earth is itself not a state. Between 1787 and 1790, thirteen independent states on the east coast of the Atlantic Ocean in North America ratified a Constitution and created a central government with strictly limited sovereign powers in order to create a more perfect union of their states. The states did not give themselves a one-word name because they were thirteen. Their new central government was not a state and therefore possessed no state territory. But it had to have some location so the founding fathers  took small portions of land from the states of Virginia and Maryland and created the District of Columbia. A non-state was created and located in a district that was but a small dot on a map of the original thirteen united states in North America. Despite it’s tiny portion of land, the new government was given among its powers three grand powers: it had exclusive control of all military and diplomatic activities and it alone was given the power to admit new states to the union. From the admission of Vermont in 1791 to that of Hawaii in 1959, the Congress located in the District of Columbia has passed bills admitting thirty-seven new states to the united states. If it continues to admit new states, it would be acting consistently with its past actions and no new state admitted could complain that it had been joined in union to its fellow states by a state.Daniel McNeillRead 42 arguments for a United States of the World at: usoftheworld.com/world-unityMany writings by Daniel McNeill can be read online at: usoftheworld.com

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 Sovereign states manage the actions of their subjects and try to direct them towards good behavior but whoever has power in a sovereign state can act in his own interest. The evil actions of individuals are punished by states but a state is not subject to punishment for its evil acts against its own citizens or against citizens of foreign states if it is sovereign. Why is it that we Americans do not realize that we alone of all people in the world live in states where sovereignty is limited? We enjoy in our union of states the benefits and freedoms that result from limiting state sovereignty. We should be shouting to the world that the right to live and work in any one of 50 states and to enjoy full citizenship in any democratic state of our union by simply taking up residence in it is the ultimate human political blessing. We should be passionate about extending our benefits to foreign states by admitting them as new states in our union. But for some reason we seem blind ourselves to the extraordinary benefits of our system and we have no interest in adding new states to our union even though since it began over 200 years ago we have admitted 37 new states.
    A third of Americans live in poverty or struggle to remain not far above poverty. The majority of people outside the United States and other developed countries live in poverty. Poor people in the world have no capital to invest in their economies to produce jobs. In some poor countries the only avenues to wealth are politics and corruption. Plenty of capital and know-how is available worldwide to create jobs, but poor sovereign states ruled by tyrants are not attractive to investors. The best way to develop them is to invite them to become states in our union of states. Then they will draw in investments from investors worldwide looking for totally secure opportunities. And we Americans would have new states in our union needing development where we could use our skills securely and profitably creating wealth for the world's poor and for ourselves.
   But we are blind to our condition. And we are blind to the immense possibilities for good that our political system could do for ourselves and the world. We do not see who we are and where we should be headed.
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The American central government in Washington has been supporting a worldwide network of states for more than a hundred years. Under its protection, some nation-states have achieved democracy and prosperity by specializing in certain industries and using the world as a marketplace. American businessmen have exported their capital and their industries all over the globe. The worldwide capitalistic organization of the world is an ongoing business. But globalization is destabilizing nation-states. The nation-state has lost its main function, the protection of its citizens from invasion. Now wars are being fought within nation-states, not between them. The world needs solidly established states with democratic governments free from corruption and civil war. The Federal Government guarantees each of our American states a democratic government and protects each from invasion. Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution reads, “The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government and shall protect each of them from invasion”. The transformation of the United States of America to the United States of the World will guarantee within states worldwide the institutions necessary for their secure economic and democratic development. 
Daniel McNeill
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World Unity 16

Italy needs to modernize its economy to compete better globally but the truth it must face is that no state can solve its economic problems and create for itself a dynamic new prosperity by remaining a sovereign nation. Nations are set up to solve problems top-down and within national borders but postmodern solutions require also a transnational approach. The Italian auto company Fiat stopped acting nationally within Italy and in the European Union and boldly bought Chrysler which gave it the right to do business also across the borders of 50 American states. It is now a political and economic player in the EU and in the US as well as in Italy. Fiat has boldly freed itself from economic slavery within the national borders of Italy. It operates freely without interstate tariffs in 78 states worldwide. Why not solve the serious economic problems of Italians by giving each the political right to operate like Fiat outside of their national borders?  
    The American Constitution reads in Article IV, Section 3, “New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union.” Italy the fifty-first state? Unthinkable! Absolute total nonsense! Just imagine Italy accepted by the American Congress so that 61 million Italians, who have now the right to work where they wish in 28 European states, would gain the legal right to live and to work and to vote and to run for public office and to become citizens in any one of 51 states in North America and on the Hawaiian Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean as well as in Italy merely by taking up residence in one of them! Why is such a state thinkable for Corporations like Fiat but unthinkable for Italians? It would be a revolution! It would begin to shake up national structures in the postmodern world on a scale like the conquest of Gaul by Caesar in the ancient world. But it would be a secure revolution. Investment money would flow into Italy from investors worldwide because they would know that Italy as a US state is a secure democracy backed by the US Federal Government’s military, judicial and economic powers. Italians affected badly by their Jobs Act would be free to move to fifty new states to seek opportunities not found in Europe or in Italy. All it requires is a referendum in Italy. If Italians vote yes and the American Congress passes a bill admitting Italy as a state, a new world will be born with the city of Rome again a grand presence in a vast territory of united peoples.
Daniel McNeill
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Can anything be more ridiculous than Italy giving up its sovereignty by becoming a US state? No, but Italy would keep its sovereignty. James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, wrote that the powers of the Federal Government “are few and defined” and those of the States are “numerous and indefinite”. The US states possess sovereignty, their Federal Government does not. The states, by laws established in the Constitution, have given the government in Washington D.C exclusive sovereignty only over military matters and international diplomacy. Italy would give up its right to make war and would disband its diplomatic corps. Its central government in Rome would continue passing laws as before but a few laws that are judged by federal courts to be contrary to the Constitution could be cancelled. Generally, this means Italy could not pass laws contrary to basic unalienable human rights that should be guaranteed to citizens in any state anywhere in the world. Washington also has the power to regulate commerce but its income of over 5 trillion dollars a year is based on letting businessmen operate freely with a few fundamental regulations necessary for a prosperous and honest economic system. Italy would go on much as before but it would send elected representatives now to 2 democratic governments, one in Rome and one in Washington. Its citizens, according to the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, would be “citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside.”  Italians who choose to live in Italy would therefore continue to be Italian citizens. They would have double citizenship in a worldwide union of states where none of many governments, federal, state and local, is fully sovereign. 
Daniel McNeill
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World Unity 14

A look at the map of the United States with a basic knowledge of key events in American history should convince anyone that an extraordinary revolutionary unfolding and development of humanity unlike anything in its past somehow happened on our continent. Our rebellion against Britain would never have succeeded unless she decided finally to let us go and be rid of us.  She was tired of trying to conquer and rule crude uneducated swarms of white men with their black slaves scattered about in a vast wilderness. Britain understood that humanity’s adventure in America would never work. She let us go free to learn for ourselves that we were condemned in advance to futility. She took Canada instead of America and was sure that something would stop the swarms of humanity to the south moving west, the wilderness or the Indians or the Mississippi River or the French and Spanish territories. We would never reach the west coast and the Pacific Ocean and what kind of government could ever rule and dominate such vast swirls of humanity of every race coming from all over the world and always on the move west in spite of the great overwhelming difficulties? Well, the most amazing event in our history was the creation of a political system that establishes the most free and the most just distribution of political power that has ever ruled or ever will rule humanity. Britain got rid of us once and for all and we got rid once and for all of the nation-state. Not one of our fifty states will ever be a nation and our grand and just and powerful government in Washington will never be a state! Good-bye nation-state! You strangled humanity to death for centuries but you will never get your deadly grip on peoples in the states of our union or in any new state that joins us! 
Daniel McNeill
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No state that petitions the American Congress to join our union should believe it is about to enter a political and economic paradise. America is not heaven and it is often hellish to live in America if you can’t find a good job. But in whatever condition you find yourself, America does supply you with democracy and unalienable rights. Some of our states have been democracies since 1787 and all of our 50 states are now solid democracies. They are democratic because they choose to be democratic but also because the Federal Government must by law not allow them to be anything else. Article IV, Section 4 of the US Constitution reads, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government”. Full sovereignty in a state means that citizens must obey laws without the power to challenge them. Every law passed by any of our American governments at any level can be challenged in courts and overturned. France used its sovereign power to establish by law same-sex marriage in 2013. In 2004, the supreme court of the state of Massachusetts heard an appeal from a judgment in a lower court against  same-sex marriage and ruled that Massachusetts did not have the right to deny marriage to anyone. A democratic nation-state like France awards citizens rights from a top-down position of supreme sovereign power. In a state like Massachusetts with limited sovereignty, democracy operates both top-down and bottom-up. One citizen, challenging a court’s judgment against same-sex marriage, established from the bottom-up the universal right in Massachusetts for all its citizens to marry.
Daniel McNeill
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Baseball Was Invented By 19th-century Protestants

By the time of the Civil War, baseball arrived on the scene in America with events in its drama that parallel all the major themes of the Christian religion: a primary state of innocence, the batter setting himself at the plate; a temptation, the offering of the ball by the pitcher; a fall, the self-condemnation by hitting the ball to the diminished role of a base runner; sin, the passive touching of a base; faith, running the bases or taking a daring lead off base; grace, a sudden unmerited aid that  leads to advancement on the bases or scoring a run; and the final redemption of reaching the place at home plate where the player was at the beginning. The game even expresses also a parallel to the idea of predestination in Calvinism. The batter who hits a home run is ipso facto predestined to be saved. He is the exception. He hits the ball so well that his salvation is assured prior to his birth on the bases. Baseball is a game invented by nineteenth-century Protestants.
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World Unity 12

As the leader of the free world, the American Federal government has been trying since the Second World War to unite the world by influencing  governments of nation-states to be democracies and at home it does not allow states in the American union to be anything else. It has great worldwide power partly because most of the work of government in the US is routinely done by state governments. This frees Washington to pursue political goals on an international as well as on a national level. In any union of states, sovereignty must be divided between states and their central government. Sovereignty is already divided in the American union between the 50 states and the Federal Government so that only the American political system already possesses the framework that would be necessary in a world union.
     We  Americans have been living with the task of setting up and living with a central government of an interstate union with limited sovereign power since the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, two other grand unions of peoples were prominent. Britain ruled an empire at the start of the Second World War with 458 million people, one fifth of the world’s population, in colonies, dependencies and territories worldwide. The  other large union of states other than the American union was the Soviet Union which had 15 states. The American and Russian unions united with the British Empire and the 3 allied global powers destroyed fascism in Europe and won the Second World War. After the war, the Cold War was a struggle between the American and Soviet unions. With the breakup of the Soviet Union and the British Empire, only the US union survived with its political system unchanged. Its central government is not only a great power struggling to unite the world for peaceful and democratic development but also has the political structure to be the central government of a worldwide union of states because it is  not a state, is not located in a state, and is not sovereign.
Daniel McNeill
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The Massacre In Las Vegas

It does no good to blame the massacre in Las Vegas on bourgeois values. Every successful person living in the United States is a bourgeois but you can’t tell them that. What, my way of life was invented and developed beginning 900 years ago in Europe? What I do is my own thing. I earned my way to success. I applied my reason, and nothing but reason, to reality. I practiced a behavior designed to exploit my abilities and the abilities of others to make money. Rational behavior made me. Devotion to rationality produced science and science produced technologies that change nature  to new more profitable forms. 200 years ago in America my ancestors were agricultural slaves, but look at me now. I exercise faithfully. My car is worth new $60000 dollars. My job is the result of technologies that are the most advanced in the history of mankind. I’m on my way. I’m making it by applying reason to reality and I don’t care what result happens or what my values are or where they come from. I’m not a bourgeois. I’m me. The world is too weak to resist technology. Rationality and science rule. I rule.

   So no one is a bourgeois even though it is obvious to simple historical inquiry that every system of values for living a life of quality opposed to the bourgeois way of life failed. Put simply, we Americans are forced to live a rational and politically correct life up the ass. The bourgeoisie organized the systematic rape of the world. It continues but now with one mighty and obnoxious exception. The rape has never been more rapacious. Every time the bourgeois world gives us some positive pleasure it’s the result of stuffing something painful up the natural word’s ass.The soul? Forget it. Buy a new car, get divorced and remarried, buy a more expensive house. Do what reason tells you.  All the other non-rational signals will lead you only to your true feelings which might lead you to the disaster of relying only on what you find in your heart. Stephen Paddock fired his rifle at people using advanced technologies. He did not consider himself a bourgeois either even though his heartless method was totally rational and completely lethal like bourgeois values.

Daniel McNeill

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World Unity 11

When American banks created and lent out over $8 billion in real estate loans to people unable to pay their mortgages, it led to a terrible worldwide economic depression in 2007. The American union of states and the European Union faced a crisis and had to take action. The American government in Washington possessed a Congress with full constitutional power over a huge inflow of tax monies of more than  $4 trillion. It also received an inflow of billions of dollars yearly from US bonds sold worldwide mostly to foreign banks. Congress allowed one gigantic bank to fail and rescued another by borrowing $250 billion and loaning funds to it to save it. Between 2008 and 2012, the Federal Government borrowed almost $6 trillion to spend and stimulate economies nationally and internationally. President Bush in 2008 created a $168 billion stimulus package and President Obama created one in 2009 worth $787 billion. Federal Reserve Banks, banks of a central banking system independent of any government, dropped their discount rates for loans to banks so low that they were nearly giving out money free of charge to private American banks to use to back loans to businesses to stimulate the economy. The massive supply of money the US government injected into the American and worldwide economy drastically reduced the value of the US dollar. The European Central Bank of the European Union, located in the German nation-state, did the opposite. Germany fought pitilessly using the central bank’s power to force private banks in other states of the European Union to restrict credit and thus stop the needed expansion of the money supply. Germany forced other nation-state governments in the EU to reduce public spending benefiting their citizens and to introduce measures of austerity that eliminated jobs. The American central government acted like the head of a real union of states by creating and spending money massively year after year to stimulate its own economy and the world economy. Germany used the European Union as though it were not a union of states at all but just one big state ruled by Germany. It fought to control the value of its own wealth by refusing to devalue the Euro and thus create higher demand for products throughout Europe and more jobs. A union of states that has no independent central government constituted to use its power to aid all its states and instead can be manipulated selfishly by one state is not much more than an association of sovereign states of little value in an economic crisis.
Daniel McNeill

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World Unity 10

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, Property, the pursuit of Happiness, and Citizenship in a democratic state of their choosing. To secure such rights, Governments should be instituted among men with limited sovereign powers in order to prevent politicians from assuming dictatorial powers. Until the present century, independent national states required unlimited sovereignty to form national armies capable of defending states from attacks by enemy states. In the 50 united states of America, state armies are both unnecessary and illegal. In independent national sates throughout the world, national armies have become less and less necessary because the American Federal Government has assumed the responsibility of protecting foreign states from interstate wars. It backs up this responsibility at a cost of nearly 600 billion dollars a year by maintaining more than two and a half million personnel in its armed forces, military bases throughout the world, and a naval fleet present in every ocean. By joining the 50 united states as newly admitted states, national armies of new states, which sometimes are used to repress the democratic rights of their people, will become obsolete. The Federal Government of the 50 united states of North America and the Pacific Ocean has already assumed some duties of a world government partly to prevent laws and policies of national states from impeding the freedom of multinational corporations to conduct business worldwide unrestricted by national boundaries. As national states apply for admission to the American union to the Congress in Washington and are accepted by the Congress, the transition of the United States of America to the United States of the World would become gradually a reality. This extensive new world union would guarantee a democratic government in every state and make more and more secure and more general the movement throughout the world of labor and capital wherever opportunities for employment draw them.
Daniel McNeill
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World Unity 9

More than eight hundred years ago, middle-class merchants and craftsmen in Europe escaped from feudal oppression by establishing themselves in towns and by guarantying their new free independent way of life with written laws. Entrepreneurs from this class made technological advances in the means of production over a long period of time that radicalized economic, social and political relations. Eventually this new middle class of merchants and lawyers, the bourgeoisie, created national states, first as limited monarchies and then as democracies, to protect by laws and constitutions the property and riches of the few from the working class. American foreign policy since the Second World War has continued to seek this governmental protection of the rich at the worldwide rather than just at the national level. All revolutions are destructive but it is still possible to create a positive result of the middle-class revolution of the past if we carry its momentum further by creating a new world order that protects by law not just the worldwide freedom of the rich but the worldwide freedom of everyone. We must make an orderly transition to a new glorious condition of our world by adding states to the American union whose people will send representatives to the Congress in Washington and guarantee by the power of law both the interstate inviolability of multinational corporations and the inviolable right of the workers of the world to free interstate movement and free interstate citizenship.
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World Unity 8

The American Constitution states clearly that the Congress of the elected representatives of the 50 states possesses the power to admit new states. Since the United States began in 1789 with the acceptance of the Constitution by 13 states, 37 new states have been admitted. The Federal Government’s role as a national government would not change as long as some states in the world choose to remain independent and to retain their unlimited sovereignty. The people of newly admitted states would be citizens, as stated in the Fourteenth Amendment to the American Constitution, both of the United States and of the state where they choose to establish residence. However, as the world role of the Federal Government increases with more and more new states, its national role would decrease. This is happening already for, since the end of the Second World War, the Federal Government’s world responsibilities have made it less and less able to concentrate on purely national goals. The limitations on sovereignty that apply to the present 50 states would also apply to new states although these limitations would tend to decrease as the number of new states increases. Who does not see that dictatorial governments scattered all over the world, ruled by politicians with rapacious designs on their own national wealth and indifferent to real democracy and to glaring world problems, must go? Limitations to national sovereignty are the necessary conditions for the establishment of genuine democracy and for the establishment of a world government capable of dealing with world problems. In the future, the central world government located in Washington in the District of Columbia will guarantee unlimited democracy to states in exchange for their acceptance of limited sovereignty and all states will be guaranteed also full democratic representation in the government of the world government.
Daniel McNeill

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World Unity 7

The US  government has always governed very little or not at all. It has never built and funded a public school or university in a state. It has never built and funded a public hospital in a state. It has never built and sustained state roads or state transportation systems. It has never established and maintained libraries outside of the District of Columbia. It has never established police and fire services outside the District of Columbia. It has never registered births and deaths so that no US citizen has ever been born or died in the US. It has not married couples under civil law and has no power to do so. An American becomes a citizen of the state where he is born and automatically also a citizen of the US. However, he is born in a state, educated by a state, hospitalized in a state certified hospital, transported on state roads and transportation systems, married by a state, judged mostly in state courts, guarded by state police, protected by state firemen and dies in a state with his money deposited in a state bank. The lack of a great deal of action in our states by our central government is perfectly normal and a good thing. We want to govern ourselves. The Federal Government has plenty to do unifying our states, keeping them honest and democratic, and fighting to keep states worldwide safe for democracy. Our Constitution assigns our central government exclusive sovereign power only over all military and diplomatic activities. Most of its powers to act in internal matters are limited by the Constitution. HenryThoreau wrote in his great essay Civil Disobedience, “I heartily accept the motto, ‘That government is best which governs least;’ and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe--‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ ” No  officials of our central government are anarchists like Henry Thoreau, but their limited constitutional powers encourage them to rule us as little as possible. Where will states find a better central government for a united states of the world than the one already existing in the United States?
Daniel McNeill
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World Unity 6

If some poor state in Africa applied to the American Congress and was admitted to the American union, the fifty-first state would immediately be a part of an advanced political and judicial system that would revolutionize its governmental structures. But there would not be some massive overnight change. Its state government would still be its state government. Its army would become its state police or its soldiers could join the US army. The US Department of State in Washington would make known to all states worldwide that the new state is an American state. The new state would be safe from any military invasion from without and free from corruption and dictatorship from within. Its banks would join the Federal Reserve banking system and loan money with security and sophistication using advanced banking principles. Naturally some enemies of our union’s expansion will say that this is nothing more than a new form of the old imperialism. Let them say it but the new state will be open for business ready to receive capital and investments from businessmen from all the states in the world. What corporation or business would be afraid to invest in the new American state with its currency now converted to the dollar and its economy totally secured by the military, political and economic power of Washington? And what kind of imperialism is it if citizens from the new state would be free to work and live and vote and be educated or run for office in any of fifty-one states worldwide? The people of the poor “colonized” state  would elect two senators for the Senate in Washington and several congressmen for the House of Representatives in Washington. How many men or women in colonized African states were elected to the Parliament in London and traveled to London to vote for laws for the British Empire? How stupid it is to say that a new wondrous burst of freedom for a poor state is but a new form of imperialism! It’s a new superior form of political and economic organization that some states in the world need desperately. But since some will use one word like imperialism to describe a complicated process, we will also describe the daring adventure of the poor African state too with one word, one closer to the truth, freedom.
Daniel McNeill
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World Unity 5

What are we Americans going to do? We  possess the most successful and the most radical political system ever created on earth for guaranteeing by law democratic governments for our states. Our union of states has been the main source of exceptional economic development for our citizens. Are we going to sit back and do nothing to help the rest of the world enjoy the benefits of the system that we enjoy and that nation-states in the world now need? Washington gained great power for itself internally and externally in the twentieth century but it is false and wrong for us to believe that this power must necessarily be used only to dominate our states and to influence openly and secretly foreign states throughout the world. Washington’s worldwide power is precisely a condition necessary to produce freedom and goodness for us and everyone else in the world because only great worldwide power can guarantee freedom and universal human rights worldwide. The Washington government is also the only well funded independent powerful organization existing in the world that has the material means and the political power to reduce and eliminate threats to the world’s environment like global warming. What to do? We must be loyal to Washington and support its actions around the world. We must accept in good faith whatever our Supreme Court decides is a just law of our perpetual union. But we and peoples worldwide can not hide from the fact that Washington is the new Rome. We are all dependent on it already to greater or lesser degrees for our world’s welfare. Our loyalty to Washington should not require us Americans to do nothing. We must make America begin listening to voices that come not only from Washington but also from the heart and soul of what American history has made us, a union of sovereign states. We must bust out of our comfortable mental bubble and realize that the economy of our union of states can become expansive in a revolutionary and positive way if we lighten the national responsibilities of Washington and give it the burden of interstate leadership on a worldwide scale. Our job is to invite all states in the world to join our union of states in order to assure by our laws and our Constitution their existence as democracies and their economic development.
Daniel McNeill
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World Unity 4

We the people of the present 50 united states have national patriotic sentiments like those of people of other nations. History has taught us however that a union of states free of tyrants and corrupt politicians with a central government willing to fight anywhere in the world for the survival of freedom, as President Kennedy declared in his inaugural address of 1960, is more important than nationalistic sentiment. Two hundred and thirty-nine years ago, in 1775, the state of Massachusetts on its own put an army in its fields to fight for its independence from Britain. Independent eight years later because of military help from other colonies and France, John Adams of Massachusetts refused national sovereignty for his state and instead opted for limited sovereignty and interstate union. Adams, the second President of the United States, once described a man in the continental congress who was much less radical than himself as “piddling” because he opposed his magnanimous vision of America’s future. No doubt some will reject our vision of a future United States Of The World. People of some states will say that they have no need of world union with the 50 American states and other states because they already enjoy as fully sovereign states a form of world union under the protection of American power. We consider their view piddling. Some citizens in American states, which already contain citizens of every race and religion from every nation of the globe speaking most world languages as well as English, will perhaps fear the end of the white race as a majority in America. We consider their view piddling. The world must get rid of all racism, all religious bigotry, all fanaticism, all national borders, all terrorism, all ignorance, all intolerance, all poverty, all tyrants, all corrupt politicians, all injustice or else we will all become “piddling” people and we will never have somewhere a strong central world government uniting us all under a constitution that will allow us to live magnanimously and freely in democratic states and to once again make our world green.
Daniel McNeill
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World Unity 3

Today in an interview on French television, Jean-Luc Melenchon, the founder of the Left Party (le parti de Gauche) said that France was governed by a presidential monarchy (une monarchie presidentielle). He suggests what we believe, that old-fashioned democracies in nation-states like France don’t work for most citizens and don’t work at all for those at the bottom. A postmodern state must govern  from the top down but its citizens must have enough influence from the bottom up to cancel laws that are unjust or that violate their unalienable rights. A mechanism that the American system uses to broaden democracy is judicial review. Rather than only protesting against unjust laws in the streets, Americans also challenge them in courts. Our Constitution of 1789 allows us to appeal beyond the power of all our governments to state and federal courts who can rule any law invalid guided by universal principles of justice embodied not only in the words of Constitution but also in several amendments to the Constitution. The First Amendment guarantees to all citizens in any state freedom of speech. Neither the Federal Government nor any state can make any law or take any action that prevents the exercise of this freedom. Democracy at all levels in all our many governments is compulsory and all the laws of all our governments are made by officials ruled by the dictatorship of the higher universal law that all humans possess unalienable rights. This type of top-down and bottom-up democracy can not exist in nation-states because their absolute sovereignty makes them too top-heavy to let their power sift down to those powerless at the bottom. Don’t think however that we Americans have never had presidents who acted like monarchs. It has just been more difficult than in France because our central government is not fully sovereign and the government of France is.
Daniel McNeill
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World Unity 2

The continent of North America had no nation anywhere when the first European colonists arrived in the sixteenth century. This made subjection of the natives and colonization easy. The Spanish conquerors of Mexico met an empire with a central government in Mexico City but some conquered tribes eagerly aided the Spaniards crush the empire. States developed in North America as they had in Africa during the nineteenth century. European nations conquered the natives and outlined on maps the boundaries of their colonies. The colonies then became states when the Europeans departed. The states in Africa are now nations enclosed within frontiers established by Europeans. In North America, the Europeans left behind colonies that became at their departure provinces or states but not nations. British rule continued in Canada and united its peoples but Canadians did not begin thinking of their country as a nation until late in the twentieth century. The thirteen American colonies declared themselves sovereign states in the Declaration of Independence of 1776 which reads “that these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States.” Several factors unified the thirteen states, the common use of English, their common location along the Atlantic Ocean, the common slavery of black Africans and indentured whites, the military threat in their western areas from Indians, and their eight-year war with Britain. When freed from Britain, the thirteen new American states were already unified well enough to fix their union by law by the ratification of the Constitution. But it is implicit in the Constitution that every state is sovereign and that the sovereign powers granted the new government in Washington derived from the sovereign powers of the states. Put simply, the conundrum was that the Federal Government could not have obtained limited sovereign powers unless they had been obtained from some prior absolute sovereignty belonging to the states which the Constitution also limited. The Constitution never uses the word “national” or “nation” or “Federal Government” anywhere. It says its purpose is to form “a more perfect union…for the united states of America” and it then enumerates powers that the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the new government possess. Clearly the Constitution is about delegating certain powers to a central government and this would certainly have been an odd way to set up a “national” government since the powers delegated are limited. However over time as the union expanded and faced wars and the challenge of keeping the union strong, many historians found it convenient to find evidence for America being a nation going back all the way to the landing of English colonists at Plymouth in Massachusetts in 1620. Their point of view is false. The only true line to follow to understand American history is the unity that evolved among colonists and immigrants that produced over time a glorious union of states, a union which was not a nation and never became a nation.
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World Unity 1

    The shots fired at British soldiers at Lexington and Concord in 1775 meant that in North America only Canada would develop within the British Empire and the vast lands to the south would develop on their own. The colonists, subjects of the King in London and his Parliament, jumped into the unknown. The defeat of the French at Quebec in Canada in 1763 meant that the whole of North America north of Mexico might have been governed by one body of men in a Parliament in London much as the Roman Empire had been governed by one body of men, the Roman Senate. Local rule would have evolved in the British Empire so that today Canada and the US might have been united in a vast continental union of states with local democratic governments much as in the present provinces of Canada. If the British Empire worldwide had survived up to the present time, a large worldwide union of democratic states would now exist with some kind of central government somewhere where elected representatives from all the English-speaking states would gather to make universal laws binding in their worldwide union guaranteeing universal citizenship, universal democracy, and universal unalienable human rights. This is what we are for, a United States Of The World. The British colonization of the world began a great worldwide union of peoples and it is up to us Americans to finish the job. The central government of the new worldwide union, a government with limited sovereign powers, is  already established in a location, Washington in the District of Columbia, that is not a national territory. How can anyone in our world that has been tragically torn apart in the past by wars begun by nation-states and that is being tragically torn apart today by civil wars within nation-states not see that the worldwide union of all states is a necessity and is a real possibility? It can be begun today by some nation-state petitioning the Congress in Washington to become another state of the United States. All the states of the world need to jump into the unknown as we Americans did in 1776 when we declared our independence from Britain.
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The World Beyond the American Political Bubble

The debacle American political life is now passing through because of Trump has a momentum to it that must lead to serious changes worldwide.  Lincoln was the first Trump. He manipulated American history and changed our political system. Wilson was the first president to understand that the Washington government had to operate for the worldwide good of humanity. He tried to unify the world’s states after the First World War. President Roosevelt  fought  a war worldwide against fascism to end the European colonial empires and people the world instead with free independent states. To fight the Cold War, the American government and military finally decided that, yes, America should unite the world. American foreign policy after Lincoln and up to Obama has been a magnificent success erected over failure after failure, political and military blunder after blunder, that did produce the economic and military unity worldwide that is now crumbling. Enter Donald Trump. He has decided that it is in the interest of Americans to destroy the imperfect worldwide unity that Washington has worked at now for two generations. There are dictatorial states in the world ready to help Trump take apart the American worldwide system of unity. Americans are protesting against Trump but they are blind to the world beyond their American bubble. It is as if they are unable to understand that Washington has been and is trying to unite the world for the good of humanity. Trump’s madness bumps up against a passionate and visionless goodness that want rights for everyone, for immigrants and Americans alike, but only in America! Americans deserve universal human rights but so does every human being everywhere. The best way we can promote rights for ourselves is to demand that Washington admit new states to our union and use its power to enforce human rights in all the states of an expanded union. But that would require a new consciousness among Americans. We would have to start suddenly demanding from Washington not only universal rights for ourselves but also for everyone else in the world. We  would have to become global thinkers like presidents Wilson and Roosevelt. We would have to understand that there are no universal human rights if they are not universal.
Daniel McNeill
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