The Second American Independence Day that Almost Was

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Lost in all the parades, barbecues, and worshipping of all things military on the Fourth of July is the fact that Americans on that day are supposed to be celebrating their secession from the British Empire.   The "free and independent states," as they are called in the Declaration of Independence, individually voted to secede from the British Empire and form a confederation of states.

There was no such thing as a unitary "United States of America."  The phrase is always in the plural in all of the founding documents (i.e. the United States are . . .), signifying that the free and independent (and sovereign) states were united in forming a confederacy.  When King George III signed a peace treaty to end the Revolutionary War (Treaty of Paris), he signed it with each individual state, not something called "the United States government."

Read on:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/07/thomas-dilorenzo/2nd-american-independence-day/