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America would've been better off with a Millet system than a State system. CMV

Firstly I'll explain what the Millet system is. The Millet system is an alternate model for federalism in which rather than have state laws apply over strict geographical regions, the government is composed of Millets whose law applies to its people rather than places.

The first example of a Millet system is the Ottoman's system, in which Millets were defined by religion. However Millets could also be constructed around ethnicity, language, nationality, or whatever trait that could hold a person to identify with their Millet. A system where upon reaching adulthood a person may choose to be a citizen of whichever Millet they wish would work too.

For the 13 colonies a free form Millet system seems most appropriate to me. 13 millets would exist, perhaps additions ones for Native Americans.

As the millets have no strict geographical boundaries, merely the rough boundaries that exist defined by where people belonging to each Millet live, the issue of slave states would not have occurred. In fact I find it a lot less likely that a civil war could've occurred at all.

This would've made a lot of the issues the US had with the state system void, but preserved the benefits of a federal system.

There are obviously problems with the Millet system of course. Such as the complications of committing crimes where the perpetrators and victims are abiding by different millet laws.
gpt
The whole purpose of states in the first place were to de-centralize the US government. If there was a millet system it would be controlled by the Federal government, thus defeating the point.

Also the system just sounds extremely weird in general and, to be frank, unnecessary.