Chatting About A Constitutional Power

Article IV Section 3. of the American Constitution reads, “New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union…” This means that Pelosi, the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, and McConnell, the Republican leader of the Senate have the power to admit any state in the world as the 51st state of the United States. They could perhaps meet for lunch and chat about what states to admit. It might overwhelm their merely human minds with august excitement if their chat led to talk of admitting Germany and France. Both admitted would add at least 150 million new Americans to America. A truly august yet improbable proposition. But what about Guatemala? Yesterday I heard of a man from Guatemala working in the US who lost his job because of the coronavirus. He was sending $300 a month to his family in Guatemala. If Pelosi and McConnell admitted Guatemala, that man would not complain. He and his family could move to any one of 51 states and earn up to $15 an hour. Many unemployed Americans speak Spanish and might move to Guatemala and take one of the thousands of new jobs that would open up in Guatemala as American government units and private businesses develop in the new state. It’s worth chatting about over lunch. The Constitution doesn’t mince its words. It gets right to the point. It dropped a power on the head of Congress that makes possible right now a radical transformation of the whole world. For good. All the past efforts to transform the world were bad. Very bad. This one is good. It would definitely be good for Guatemala. And even for Germany and France. It’s worth at least chatting over.

Daniel McNeill

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A Worldwide Union of States

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 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.
Daniel McNeill
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