Monday, October 30, 2017

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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