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
The United States of the World, The Theater of the Impossible, The End of All Beginnings, books by Daniel McNeill, are for sale at:amazon.com/author/graceisall