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Marakesh ๐“…ฆ · 4w
> "In an American context, the United States was, of course, founded as a union of thirteen separate countries. It was only after a war was fought to prevent several of those countries from leaving th...
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The reason they're called states is because they're supposed to be independent.
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That's right, but their founders changed that in their second constitution of 1789, and continued to decrease state independence since then, especially by the Secession War and Reconstruction: nostr:nevent1qqs0g0z7quxmm53r03kfcrhs0v2vf3rjxdgce9dm907yht82ej8cftqpzpmhxue69uhhxmmvda3k7tnwdshsygpacppnf...