Who coined the name: 'United States of America'? Mystery might have intriguing answer.

Christian Science Monitor ^ | 07/05/2013 | By Byron DeLear

[knarf]

Never thought it through, but .. I'd say USA would be OK

In text though, I think we are the united ... as joined together, States of America.

I read somewhere here in FR ... oh hell .. must'a been "98 or '99, a pretty interesting thread about the corporation of the (all caps) USA as opposed to the union of individual states .. uSA.That thread prompted another thread (or more) of the fringe and eagle on the top of the flag in a court room ... something about admiralty and all that.

Maybe THIS thread could pick up on some o'dat and refresh my failing memory.

And if there was anything TO those threads ... perhaps we should be informed ... eh?

[Amagi]

Al Gore also finally set the record straight on the true meaning of the national motto E Pluribus Unum,
"We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be e pluribus unum -- out of one, many."
(Source: January 1994. From a Milwaukee speech to the Institute of World Affairs as quoted in Investor's Business Daily, October 25, 1996.)
No controlling legal authority, no release of the second chakra, has succeeded in an attempt to reverse this inconvenient truth from one of the greatest minds and honest entrepreneurs of this or any age.

[Amagi]

... one of the greatest minds and honest entrepreneurs of this or any age.

Not to forget that Gore is also one of the most gracious and classy election losers of all time.

[TBP]

That also incorporates Richard Henry Lee’s resolution, word for word:

“That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved.”

And two of the Declaration’s four references to God are there.

[TBP]

Another thing, people used to say "the United States are a great country." I'd like to know when people started saying "is a great country" instead

Essentially, after the War Between the States. Before then, the Union was considered a union of sovereign states. The United States of America, essentially, is a creation of those states.

After the Union victory in the war, the verbiage changed due to a more centralized sense of being one Union, rather than several sovereign states in voluntary federation. Mr. Lincoln's legacy.

[Kartographer]

No hi-jacked again.