[Huck]

We defeated the British without consolidated government.

[Jacquerie]

We defeated the British without consolidated government.

We did it without the Articles of Confederation as well, which were ratified just a few months before victory at Yorktown. We won at Yorktown despite the Articles and due to the assistance of the French Army, Navy and the efforts of a Virginia military dictator. His name was Thomas Nelson and his predations were made necessary by inadequate government. Absent his requisitions against the people of Virginian the combined armies may not have prevailed against the British.

[Cheburashka]

We defeated the British without consolidated government.

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No, we had a confederated government, although not a very well organized one. Hey, there was a war on. It's hard to organize a new government while you're fighting a war, worse yet fighting a war on your home terrain. (Rule number one: when fighting a war, try to do it on the other guy's territory.) And we had French and Spanish help. So we won. Barely. If there had been thirteen separate governments each fighting the British separately, well, you could expect to know what spotted dick tastes like, as well as kidney pie.

But you seem to want disunion, to think it's a good thing.