Answer: The independent states claim the power to levy war, make peace, make alliances with foreign nations, conduct trade, and to do anything else that independent states have the right to do.
Explanation: The citizens of each colony have pledged their loyalty and lives to the cause of the newly independent nation.
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Americans were the white settlers.