'the inevitable loss of sovereignty as the "larger unit" of government assumes more and more powers far in excess of what the charter grants.'
That is precisely what has happened in the European Union. When Britain held its referendum and signed up as a full member in 1974, it was the "Common Market" (European Economic Community), a continent-wide trading post.
Take a look at it now. Piece by piece, bill by bill it has morphed into a self-obsessed political leviathan, which far from caring for the interests of individual member states as the EEC did and was set up to do, now seeks to override and abrogate state authority and independence in favour of central control and collectivisation.
This is not even akin to the Union you have, which at least preserves and protects the statehood of its members, and enshrines and guarantees their political rights and freedom in a Constitution. Oh no, the EU goes far beyond that, it seeks to crush our very identities and existence, and replace them with a single superstate run by non-accountable bureaucrats.
This is not what the nation voted for back in 1974, yet since then more and more power has been ceded to faceless federalists with their own agenda of achieving a trans-European autocracy with Brussels as the home of the feudal overlords.
Then people here wonder why I loathe and despise the European Union so much. 