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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The disagreement over how far exactly those powers went was, of course, why we had a Revolution in the first place, and we ended up going through this whole business again with the Articles of Confederation, leading to the Constitutional Convention to try to clarify matters
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I think there’s a coherent argument that the US was an EU like entity under the Articles. I also think it doesn’t matter beyond historical curiosity because the arrangement was such an unmitigated disaster...
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