There is a dishonest argument that the "sovereign states" that became the "United States" were at one point truly independent countries and the US is the equivalent of the EU This isn't actually true They wanted to act like it was, but it was a liehttps://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1357538650293231618 …
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If you put hard borders around Rhode Island and expected it to try to go it alone as its own country that had to negotiate deals with all the other countries around it to survive it wouldn't last a week Come the fuck on
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The fact that everyone was floundering and everything was falling apart under the Articles of Confederation, which did let individual states do bullshit like issue their own money and stuff, is WHY WE WROTE A NEW CONSTITUTION IN THE FIRST PLACE
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The explicit purpose of the original Articles of Confederation was to replace the powers formerly given to the Crown and Parliament with those same powers given to the Continental Congress
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