The United English-speaking States of the World 1

England united by military force Britain and Ireland and with a secure  base at home proceeded to conquer and rule one quarter of the globe. The sovereignty of England was the fatal flaw that ruined the continuation of the British Empire. England, the state of England, has not been a separate national state for over 400 years, but the sovereignty of England, of the English element in Britain, has been a power fiercely guarded by the English down to our time. The King or Queen are sovereign. They are the power behind Parliament. The power behind the royal sovereign has always been the English. The royalty combined with the English  equals the sovereignty of the English element in Britain over Britain. The British Empire was lost for a variety of reasons but the main reason was that sovereignty could not be transferred to its many conquered dominions. It remained always in London as though permanently closed and guarded in a castle completely isolated from the rest of the world’

   But one thing does remain from the British Empire: 70 English-speaking states scattered geographically from the north of Scotland to the south of Australia. The amazing thing about them is that none of them are completely sovereign. The 10 provinces of Canada are under the sovereign power of a parliament in Ottawa itself under a representative of the queen. The 50 states of America have constitutionally limited sovereignty as does the government in Washington. The governments of New Zealand and the 6 states of Australia are under the sovereignty of the crown in Britain. The three states of Britain, England, Wales and Scotland, are not fully sovereign because they are also under a parliament exercising the sovereignty of the crown.The Republic of Ireland appears to be the only English-speaking state fully sovereign although it is subject to the European Union government in Brussels.

   We are now in a postnational period of history. If nationalism no longer works and the 70 English-speaking states are not fully sovereign nations because they were all once parts of the British Empire, why should they not be politically unified in a great global union of states all speaking the same language and all with common political and legal customs? One principle of such a union would be that they be united again by a central government, as they  once were during the British Empire. The other principle would be that they yield to a central government a few of their sovereign powers which they once yielded completely during the British Empire which kept total sovereignty for itself locked up tight in London.

Daniel McNeill usoftheworld.com

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