Strong’s The Antifederalist
is a series of essays critical of the American federal system in which
governmental sovereignty is “dual,” meaning that both the Union and the member-states
have at least some such sovereignty that the other cannot abolish or override.
Had more credence been paid to the arguments in that text, perhaps the state governments
would have more power at the federal level to protect their retained
sovereignty from federal encroachment. The drafting of the E.U. paid more heed to
those arguments in terms of safeguarding state sovereignty by considerable
direct involvement of state officials at the federal level. Even so, Euroskeptics
have warned of a centralized state in the process, and the U.S. has furnished
them with an actual instance of a nearly consolidated empire-scale federal
system. The warnings may thus be valid even with the additional safeguards that
the E.U. has but the U.S. lacks, at least as of 2026, but claims that the E.U.
does not have a federal system and is not a political union of states
ring hollow as they are utterly false. So too, but the way, is the mislabeling
of the E.U. as a bloc. The E.U.’s parliament alone knocks out all three
of these ideological claims.
The full essay is at "The E.U.: A Political Union."
