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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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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I would say that this may have been the intention but it didn't work, and the reason it didn't work is that several of the smaller colonies were never viable as independent states
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