Thank you for writing this. You're absolutely correct. We're not celebrating the birth of a nation today; rather, it was the emancipation from our parents. You could argue the United States was officially born in 1783 with the Articles of Confederation. But the current nation wasn't established, as you point out, until 1789 with the ratification and implementation of the U.S. Constitution. History matters more than mythology.
One of the ‘new’ factors I am starting to focus on is the anarchic state, as it was, from 1776 - 1789. The transfer of the colonial governments to the original Confederacy was without any authorization. Once we cite authority, we are subject to it. We are entering a corresponding state, with regard to the owner class finding use in the nation-state system, as they seek increasing corporate globalization.
Thank you for writing this. You're absolutely correct. We're not celebrating the birth of a nation today; rather, it was the emancipation from our parents. You could argue the United States was officially born in 1783 with the Articles of Confederation. But the current nation wasn't established, as you point out, until 1789 with the ratification and implementation of the U.S. Constitution. History matters more than mythology.
One of the ‘new’ factors I am starting to focus on is the anarchic state, as it was, from 1776 - 1789. The transfer of the colonial governments to the original Confederacy was without any authorization. Once we cite authority, we are subject to it. We are entering a corresponding state, with regard to the owner class finding use in the nation-state system, as they seek increasing corporate globalization.