Challenge: U.S. Like The E.U.

Your challenge is to have the United States adopt a system of government like that of the modern European Union. No PODs before the American Revolution -- PODs can be after 1900, but you win one extra Internet if you can have the system adopted during the Early National Period. The system of government doesn't have to be exactly like that of the EU.
 
How long does it have to last?

I ask since basically it would'nt be possible for it to continue indefinately, either the states would completely seperate and likely form rivalling 'bloc's or they'd form a more tighter and tighter Union until you got something similiar to the modern OTL U.S.
 
Keep the East coast colonies (in order descending from North to South) French, British, Dutch, Swedish, British, and Spanish. Then have them all revolt at about the same time.
 
Keep the East coast colonies (in order descending from North to South) French, British, Dutch, Swedish, British, and Spanish. Then have them all revolt at about the same time.

He said no PoD before 1776.
 
The US of the Articles of Confederation era was basically an EU like entity. You weren't an American: you were a Virginian, a New Yorker, whatever.

That's what I thought. The only thing missing, apart from the fact that it didn't last, was a common currency and common trade regulations.

So, all you'd really need would be for the colonies to take a more conservative approach when it comes to reforming the Articles, and instead of completely starting from scratch with a strong federal system under a new constitution, pass some amendments to the articles to form a more centralized economic system.

About ten or twenty years later, when relations with Britain and Canada start to boil over, some more amendments are passed to coordinate defense and foreign relations between the colonies (A 'shared competence' between the Euro union and individual nations). Assuming the Confederation survives the *War of 1812, it might survive a little bit longer until the *Civil War finally splits it apart.
 
In OTL ratification, the states that ratified by narrow majority were Massachusetts, nr. 6 on 6th of February, 1788, 187:168, New Hampshire, nr. 9 (the one that validated constitution) on 21st of June, 1788, 57:47, Virginia, nr. 10 on 25th of June, 1788, 89:79, New York, nr. 11 on 26th of July, 1788, 30:27 and Rhode Island, nr. 13 on 29th of May, 1790, 34:32.

It will not be hard to thwart ratification of Constitution by swaying 10 votes in Massachusetts.

So consider alternatives:
Constitution passed as per OTL, after ratification failed, the Articles of Confederation go on as usual;
Constitution passed as per OTL, after ratification failed, a new Convention meets to make a constitution of a rather looser union than OTL (though still different from Articles), and it gets ratified;
the original Convention proposes a Constitution of a rather looser union than OTL (though still different from Articles), and it gets ratified.

What could happen?
 
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