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America's Sovereign States: The Obscure History of How 10 Independent States Joined the U.S.
Ammo.com ^ | 8/27/2020 | Sam Jacobs

Posted on 08/27/2020 11:25:01 AM PDT by ammodotcom

It is often said that before the Civil War, the United States “are,” but after the War, the United States “is.” This is a reference to the formerly theoretically sovereign nature of each state as compared to “one nation, indivisible.”

More than just the theoretic sovereignty of the individual states, the territory now comprising the U.S. has a rich history of sovereign states outside the control of the federal government. Some of these you’ve almost certainly heard of, but a lot of them are quite obscure. Each points toward a potential American secession of the future.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; history; secession; sovereign; states

1 posted on 08/27/2020 11:25:01 AM PDT by ammodotcom
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Very interesting.


2 posted on 08/27/2020 12:04:22 PM PDT by RCFlyer
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BKMK


3 posted on 08/27/2020 12:20:24 PM PDT by lizma2
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Bump


4 posted on 08/27/2020 1:44:28 PM PDT by foreverfree
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