| rdfs:comment | - The CAS features an organized system of supranational institutions and standardized laws that apply to all member states. The institutions include the Parliament of American States, the American Council, the American Secretariat, American Court of Justice, and the American Customs Authority. Within the St. Louis Area, border control between participating member states (Acadiana, Alaska, The Bahamas, Belize, the Confederate States, Costa Rica, Hudson, Jamaica, Lakotah, Maritime Republic, New England, Newfoundland, Panama, Quebec, Rainier, Sierra, Teutonica, Texas, and the United Commonwealth) has been eliminated. The CAS features a common market with an overarching free trade agreement among all member states. Members of the American Parliament are elected every four years by CAS citizens w
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| abstract | - The CAS features an organized system of supranational institutions and standardized laws that apply to all member states. The institutions include the Parliament of American States, the American Council, the American Secretariat, American Court of Justice, and the American Customs Authority. Within the St. Louis Area, border control between participating member states (Acadiana, Alaska, The Bahamas, Belize, the Confederate States, Costa Rica, Hudson, Jamaica, Lakotah, Maritime Republic, New England, Newfoundland, Panama, Quebec, Rainier, Sierra, Teutonica, Texas, and the United Commonwealth) has been eliminated. The CAS features a common market with an overarching free trade agreement among all member states. Members of the American Parliament are elected every four years by CAS citizens while members in the Conference's other institutions are appointed internally or by their member states. Through common agreement and the Treaty of St. Louis, the CAS is enabled the power to protect basic human rights and to enact legislation concerning internal affairs and justice, and common policies on trade, agriculture, and the environment. In recent years however, the scope of legislation for the CAS has expanded to address virtually all areas and issues. Unlike its European counterpart, there is no currency union although there is customs union with a fixed exchange-rate system. The CAS was created through the Treaty of St. Louis in 1946, following the conclusion of World War II with the intention of creating an international union that would include all countries in the Americas. With most of Latin America objecting to a political union however (and with the alternative creation of the Organization of American States), namely, in opposition to perceived dominance by the Anglo-speaking nations of North America, the CAS was initially founded with only seven states: Acadiana, the Confederate States, Hudson, Maritime Republic, Michigan, New England, and the United Commonwealth. Over the years, membership expanded, with Sierra joining in 1965, and all of North America excluding Mexico by 2006. Since then, the possibility of expanding the CAS into South America as it was originally intended has been considered, with all of the South American states (excluding Bolivia and Venezuela) an observer state of the CAS. As a whole, the CAS has been treated as a supranational entity with some elements akin to that of a sovereign state. In the League of Nations and other organizations, the CAS represents itself alongside its own member states, although only as an observer state. In the LN, it has enhanced participation rights and status as an observer. Featuring some of the wealthiest and most politically developed nations, including Hudson, Sierra, New England, and the United Commonwealth, the Conference of American States has been described and treated as a world superpower by its own right, due to its global influence.
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