{"id":10713,"date":"2020-02-20T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=10713"},"modified":"2020-04-23T09:29:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T13:29:05","slug":"642-state-of-the-unions-britain-europe-america-with-salim-mansur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/10713","title":{"rendered":"642 – State of the unions: Britain\u2014Europe\u2014America | Salim Mansur"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is a metaphysical necessity that all political organization and activity, irrespective of its nature, requires a jurisdictional structure within which all of the activity takes place. Every political jurisdiction is defined by geographic borders, nor could it be otherwise.<\/p>\n

The various political structures under which humanity has been governed or ruled have taken many forms. Among them: an empire, a commonwealth, a kingdom, a republic, a common market, a federation, a state, a province, a union, a nation, a country, a municipality (city, town, village), a region, a territory, etc.<\/p>\n

It is significant to note that when the U.S. president annually addresses Americans, his address is not called the State of the \u2018Nation,\u2019 but is instead called the State of the \u2018Union\u2019.<\/strong> This speaks to a profound distinction regarding the independent nature of the political units being so identified \u2013 and the people who live within them. <\/p>\n

In this first of a two-part discussion with Dr. Salim Mansur<\/strong> (professor emeritus of political science at Western University), we are guided through a brief history of the rise and fall of nation states. The temporary duration of the various political structures under which humankind has been governed or ruled throughout history \u2013 even very recent history \u2013 merits due consideration.<\/p>\n

In the final analysis, it appears that whatever form a particular political jurisdiction takes, there is never one that can be considered to be Just Right without the consenting support of those who live within its borders.<\/p>\n

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With the realization of Britain\u2019s Brexit, the subsequent shrinking of the European Union, and U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s popular presidency based on \u2018putting America first,\u2019 the idea of \u2018globalism and a borderless world\u2019 has suffered a serious setback. It is a metaphysical necessity that all political organization and activity, irrespective of its nature, requires a [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,62,3134,111,28,6,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-culture-society","category-globalism","category-governance","category-latest","category-politics","category-society","issues-brexit","issues-coronavirus","issues-globalism","issues-impeachment","issues-nation-states","issues-state-of-the-union-address","personalities-donald-trump","guests-salim-mansur","category-12-id","category-62-id","category-3134-id","category-111-id","category-28-id","category-6-id","category-598-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10713"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10958,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713\/revisions\/10958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}