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Roughly, Walt. Roughly. The US really didn't get under way till roughly two decades after the DoI was signed. It was more than one decade, and I rounded up. Sue Me.

You're too dumb to even know when to let it drop.

The ARTICLES of CONFEDERATION and PERPETUAL UNION Between The States Of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-bay Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

ARTICLE I
The Stile of this Confederacy shall be "The United States of America".

The Articles were adopted in 1781, five years after the D of I was signed, not twenty years.

So you want to return to a Confederacy, Walt?

"You're too dumb to even know when to let it drop."- Walt

What have you gotten yourself into now, Walt? You're desperately thrashing and spewing meaningless insults to go along with your irrelevant quotes.

Declaration of Independence:

"...as FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, they have full power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which INDEPENDENT STATES may of right do..."

Fly your State Flag on Independence Day, and celebrate the days when there was "consent of the Governed", and State Independence in the "United States", which was referred to in the Declaration of Independence as such, - well before even the Articles of Confederation, Walt, - but the meaning of which absolutely escapes you.

A voluntary Union is a More Perfect Union.