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This isn't a new question - it was addressed by Patrick Henry, in 1788, speaking in opposition to the new Constitution: "The fate of this question and of America may depend on this: Have they said, we, the States? Have they made a proposal of a compact between states? If they had, this would be a confederation: It is otherwise most clearly a consolidated government.

The question turns, Sir, on that poor little thing-the expression, We, the people, instead of the States, of America. I need not take much pains to show that the principles of this system are extremely pernicious, impolitic, and dangerous. Is this a monarchy, like England-a compact between prince and people, with checks on the former to secure the liberty of the latter? Is this a Confederacy, like Holland-an association of a number of independent states, each of which retains its individual sovereignty? ..." https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/patrick-henrys-speech-in-defense

It turned out that he and the AntiFederalists were both prescient and spot-on correct - the only way the United States can survive is as a Confederacy of independent states, where the government of the confederation does not govern the independent states comprising it - it may provide for standards to be used in and facilitate commerce and communications, and may provide for the common defense of the confederacy, and it may mediate disputes between the independent states - and nothing else.

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Delta3Two's avatar

T.L.,

Reading this recent essay of yours tempts me to leave a remark or two. As I realize though, what good would it do ? NADA. Nothing. Zero. Zilch.

However, I would care to thank you for your unending perseverance in your longtime efforts to wake folks up to the treason and treachery in today's Amerika.

Thank you so very much.

Dan, Erie County, Pennsylvania

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