Why
doesn't America want to be sovereign?
by
Don Hank
There is an urgent need for the US to recover its lost sovereignty,
especially in terms of borders and immigration but also in more subtle ways such
as freeing ourselves from UN Agenda 21 or Common Core in education. Part of our
problem is the distorted idea of what sovereignty really is. Some think national sovereignty is
a possible encroachment on state and personal sovereignty. Some say that
sovereignty was a term avoided by the Founders because they were conditioned to
think it referred to sovereign kings and queens of
Europe.
These
concerns raise the question of what sovereignty really is, and I hope herein to
add a few grains to our understanding.
There
are several levels of sovereignty, which are, from lower to higher, essentially
as follows:
