Now that the dust has settled on the elections, the time has come (or so some of the punditry in the media assure us) to set aside political acrimony and unite under the new leadership of President-elect Donald Trump and the new House and Senate. Although it’s far from clear what President Trump will choose to prioritize, now that he will face the realities of entrenched political interests in Washington instead of his fired-up political base on the hustings, it seems at least possible that he will show much more sympathy for certain constitutionalist and Americanist causes — such as the Second Amendment and getting our borders under control — than his predecessor.

But in reality, if real change is to be enacted in Washington, it must start, as always, on Capitol Hill. It is Congress, after all, that holds the purse strings, and Congress (at least under the Constitution) in which the authority to go to war is vested. All of the legislative monstrosities of the Obama era, including Obama­Care, the bailouts, and the welter of new controls on the financial sector, could not have come into being without a cooperative Congress. As it has been under every president from Washington to Obama, so it will be under Donald Trump (his fiery populist, sometimes authoritarian rhetoric notwithstanding): Congress holds the keys to repealing bad laws and enacting new legislation. In the spirit of the New Year, therefore, we propose some New Year’s resolutions for the incoming 115th Congress to consider.

1. Take steps to initiate the process for withdrawal from the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, NATO, and NAFTA.

Since the end of the Second World War, the United States has allowed itself to become entangled in a web of international organizations dedicated to the overthrow of the world’s sovereign nations, including the United States. The very notion of sovereignty in the modern sense is comparatively new, dating from the Peace of Westphalia in the 17th century what came before that. No sooner was Westphalia concluded than elitist minds in Europe began scheming about international government, the “Parliament of man, the federation of the world,” in the words of Tennyson. After several failed attempts, which included the Holy Alliance after the Napoleonic Wars and the League of Nations after World War I, the United Nations was set up at the end of World War II, with its headquarters in New York City and the United States as a proud member. But ever since the creation of the UN, the United States has been subject to constant and unrelenting pressure to surrender sovereignty to the United Nations system, a transparent attempt to create world government by the installment plan.

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