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Ekirch on American Militarism  Mises Daily: Tuesday, June 28,
2011 by  The Decline of American Liberalism  In 1783 the treaty
ending hostilities between Great Britain and its rebellious
colonies along the eastern seaboard of North America was signed
in Paris. For their part the English proclaimed that, "His
Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New
Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations … " — there followed the rest of the thirteen
colonies — "to be free sovereign and independent states," with
the British Crown relinquishing all claims to "the same and
every part thereof."   Today, this United States, now
definitively in the singular, is itself the world's greatest
military machine and sole imperial power. How