Lee Metcalf: “I have spoken before on the absolute necessity of maintaining U.S. sovereignty in every area stated by our Constitution.…”

“I have spoken before on the absolute necessity of maintaining U.S. sovereignty in every area stated by our Constitution. We must be ever alert to threats to our sovereignty. That is our responsibility and it is the theme of my message tonight. During 1969, C.P. Kindelberger wrote that, ``The nation-state is just about through as an economic unit.'' He added, ``The world is too small. Two-hundred thousand ton tank and ore carriers and airbuses and the like will not permit sovereign independence of the nation-state in economic affairs.'' Before that, Emile Durkheim stated, ``The corporations are to become the elementary division of the State, the fundamental political unit. They will efface the distinction between public and private, dissect the Democratic citizenry into discrete functional groupings which are no longer capable of joint political action.'' Durkheim went so far as to proclaim that through corporations' scientific rationality ``will achieve its rightful standing as the creator of collective reality.'' There is little question that part of these two statements are accurate.”