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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They were separate *colonies* of the British Crown They were part of the British Empire They were dependent on that empire for defense, infrastructure, a stable currency This is the whole reason the Brits thought the revolutionaries were ungrateful wretches
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The idea that Rhode Island was ever an actual *country*, a "state" in the strongest sense of the term, and that it therefore had the right to make demands as an equal of all the other "states" at the convention, was a bullshit fiction and everyone knew it
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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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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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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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