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United States of America USA à l'Europe
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The United States of America
Successful Federation

With 48 states, roughly equal in size and potential strength,
no authority in the United States except the federal can rule over all of them.
Such a small-state organization makes the development of an oversized member impossible.
Federal power, even if small, outweighs any other 47 to 1, is therefore always effective.
(first published as Appendix I to The Breakdown of Nation by Leopold Kohr in 1957)

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