Merely writing it down that some entity is a free, sovereign and independent state does not makes it so.
It does when the OFFICIAL SOVEREIGN NATION does it, officially established by the Paris Peace Treaty of September 30, 1783:
His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign and independent states, that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs, and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety, and territorial rights of the same and every part thereof.
In addition to the express recognition of each state by name, as “free, sovereign and independent states,” as originally declared—i.e. thirteen separate sovereign nations;
here the phrase “he treats with them as such,” refers to the fact that the treaty is with the states themselves, as thirteen separate sovereign nations; and not with “the United States,” as a single nation of thirteen subordinate states.
This was due to the fact that, as noted above in Article II; the sovereign national power of embassy, which belonged to each free, sovereign and independent state; was simply among those powers which had been expressly delegated to the United States, in the Articles themselves, “in congress assembled.”
Therefore, the Treaty legally and officially established each state as a separate sovereign nation: thirteen in all.
Each state’s national sovereignty was then subsequently exercised, beginning in 1787; when twelve of the states desired to enact changes to the Articles of Confederation.
However these changes were refused by some states, including Rhode Island.
This precluded such changes; as Article XIII of the Articles of Confederation, expressly required unanimity among all states, for any changes:
Every State shall abide by the determination of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual;
nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
For this reason, the dissenting states simply exercised their sovereignty as separate sovereign nations; in order to circumvent this requirement, by
1. unilaterally seceding from the Confederation entirely, and
2. form their own new separate international union lieu of it.
They did this, by forming the United States Constitution; which realized the founding intentions and justification of the American Revolution, as set forth in the opening statements of the Declaration of Independence, by Thomas Jefferson (et al) on July 4, 1776:
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
In fulfillment of this premise; the governments of each state, then signed over supreme national authority, to the respective electorate of that particular state; so that the people—i.e. the registered citizen-voters of the particular state—would become the ruling sovereigns thereof; and thus could determine their respective state’s own national policy, by majority-vote.
Accordingly, each state’s electorate (with the exception of Rhode Island) then chose to exercise this national authority over their respective state; to:
1. unilaterally withdraw from the Confederation of 1781; and
2. to ratify the Constitution, to form a new and separate international union of sovereign nations under that document.
As James Madison noted in Federalist No. 40 regarding this:
“Instead of reporting a plan requiring the confirmation OF THE LEGISLATURES OF ALL THE STATES, they have reported a plan which is to be confirmed by the PEOPLE, and may be carried into effect by NINE STATES ONLY. … The forbearance can only have proceeded from an irresistible conviction of the absurdity of subjecting the fate of twelve States to the perverseness or corruption of a thirteenth”.
Meanwhile after North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the Constitution; Rhode Island was thus left as the sole remaining state in a now-defunct Confederation, and thus chose to ratify the Constitution in 1790… as the only state that did not secede.
In conclusion; the above implies that:
• the American Revolution established the states as thirteen separate sovereign nations; and that
• these nations ratified the United States Constitution as thirteen separate sovereign nations, each of which was supremely ruled by its respective electorate, in realization and fulfillment of the American Revolution’s stated Founding principles.
The above historical facts, establish that:
• the American Revolution established the states as thirteen separate sovereign nations; and that
• these thirteen sovereign nations, each ratified the United States Constitution in its respective capacity as separate sovereign nations;
• with by the supreme intent of its respective people, or electorate; in realization and fulfillment of the American Revolution’s stated Founding principles.
