Restoring the Sovereignty of the States

[Keith Broaders]

   TheTreaty of Paris in 1783 that officially ended the Revolutuonary War and recognized the former 13 English colonies as indepemdent sovereign nations. Each of the  states to subsequently joied the Union were admitted on equal footing.

The 13 cokonie had a right to form a Union of states in order to provide for their common defense and general welfare. In order to do so they needed to share a portion of their of their sovereignty with a central government.

In the Declaration of Indepemdence the colonists announced to the world of their intention to secede from Great Britain. After the eight year war ended in 1783 the King and Parliament agreed that the 13 former British colonies were henceforth to be recognized as indepemdent  sovereign nations. 

The secession of the coloniess established a precedent that sovereign nations had a right to dissolve the poitical bands that had connected them with their mother country.

which The only way we can restore our Constitutional Republic is to restore the sovereignty of the states, The union of states, which we call the United States consists of50 sovereign states. 

 The territory known as thr District of Columbia has sovereignty and legislative jurisdiction over an area not to exceed ten miles square,

The national governemnt was created to be  doesthe servant of the states and is limted from owning property outside of the District of Columbia, except for military installations. post offices and other needful buildings.

The Tenth Amendment explicitly  states that any and all power that is not granted to the national government that is not prohibited to the staes is reserved to the states and the people.

Thie Constitution grants to the national government a shoert list of delegated powers and alloqs the states to exercise any power that is not specifically grante to the central government.

The Supremacy Clasue in the Constitution

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