>>Please leave me alone in the future. If your understanding of what a republic is and should be, and if you really think that no sates could exit as sovereign then you are a fascist statist tool. I want nothing to do with you. Revolting. Disgusting.
Very intelligent argument. Go to name-calling when the truth begins to sink in.
I know what a republic is and am not a fascist. Your emotionally-charged posts are very Progressive-sounding, so your calling me a fascist is probably typical liberal projection.
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, Part One
Author: William Kehen, PhD. Columbia University
The federal government of the United States was created by the Constitution, which went into operation in 1789 when the first Congress convened and George Washington took the oath of office as president. The government is called federal because it was formed by a compact (the Constitution) among 13 political units (the states). These states agreed to give up part of their independence, or sovereignty, in order to form a central authority and submit themselves to it. Thus, what was essentially a group of 13 separate countries under the Articles of Confederation united to form one nation under the Constitution
When the Declaration of Independence was issued in 1776, it used the term United States of America. Until the Constitution was adopted and ratified, however, the 13 states did not really form one nation. They each held onto so many powers individually, including conducting foreign policy and trade negotiations, that the Continental Congress could only do what the states allowed. The Articles were never the law of the land to the extent that the Constitution is. In essence, the United States as a nation did not come into existence until the Constitution began to function as the framework of the government.