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We tried that. It was called the Continential Congress, and it was a spectacular failure. If you want the US to be a loose confederation of 50 sovereign nation
by krapp 1y ago
We tried that. It was called the Continential Congress, and it was a spectacular failure.
If you want the US to be a loose confederation of 50 sovereign nations, fine. Just hope you live in California, New York or Texas, because every other state is going to devolve into the American equivalent of Eastern Europe.
- int_19h 1y agoThe Continental Congress failed because it gave the federal government too little power, but that was fixed with the US Constitution. There was that long time period between that and Wickard v. Filburn, you know.