World Unity 15

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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