An empire is a political unit composed of a number of territories that are ruled by a single supreme authority. Tempting as it may be, placing a date/time stamp on the beginning is not possible.Some may desire to take the "empire date' back to the Jacksonian period. Others may choose the infamous tenure of the delusional Lincoln. Still others may want to date the beginnings during the time of Theodore Roosevelt. In the end, it's impossible. The Yankee Nation didn't start out as an empire; it slowly morphed into being one.
Gradually, the several States became less and less important and decreased in their measure of sovereignty as their respective citizens allowed the gigantic maw of Leviathan to gobble-up most shreds of self-government.
More recently, when Texas drew a new map of Yankee Nation Congressional districts, the Yankee Nation legal thugs jumped on her with both boots (with hobnails affixed). The Yankee Nation Supreme Court has frozen Texas' Yankee Nation elections and Eric Holder (the unindicted criminal of "fast and furious" fame) has flown to Texas to utter a
The first of the last gasps of the 10th Amendment is just as difficult to date as is the Yankee Nation's transition from being the United States to the Yankee Nation Empire. Was it the 18th Amendment. How about 1867's Ex Parte McCardle? Was it the 14th Amendment? The debate can go on for a long time with good and scholarly support for all contentions.
What is certain is that The Yankee Nation is a very different entity than was envisioned by the Founders and Framers. The Yankee nation is no longer simply a Union of sovereign States. It is now an empire composed of territories/states (which have the names of States). Each of them and many of their composite citizens owe and pledge total fealty to the powerful overlord that is known as the Federal Government. Such a state of affairs is no longer a Union; it is an Empire.
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