[Ohioan]

The idea that the States were never sovereign is a blatant denial of history--a denial of what was won at Yorktown & formerly acknowledged in The Treaty Of Paris--1783.

Obviously, they did not owe their existence to a political structure--or agency that did not even exist for another six years.

William Flax

[Bigun]

You are exactly right! It is an insult of the first order!

[arrogantsob]

The Continental Congress preceded the states and they were formed as a result of the admonition by CONGRESS to write constitutions and transform themselves from colonies into states. It was a NATIONAL action.

All the Founders and the vast majority of the People understood separate states had no chance of survival.

It is a distortion to claim that the states preceded national government which existed since the FIRST Continental Congress.

In case it slipped your mind that body first met in 1774.

This was YEARS before any state was formed.