[Huskrrrr]

Very interesting article. Didn’t Al Gore also take credit for this?

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

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.

[Smokin' Joe]

IIRC it was These United States of America, not The

But somewhere in there we went from a federal government to a national one.

[American Constitutionalist]

No matter what happens or the history of the United States there is no doubt that the United States was God’s will and inspired by God by Godly men.

[American Constitutionalist]

Another thing that get's misunderstood is that many people think that the " United States " is the Federal government.... nope... nada... these United States of America first and foremost is " THE PEOPLE " that formed a government of the people , for the people and by the people.
The Bill of Rights and the Constitution was a covenant between God, the people, and at that time a legitimate government in what the Government can't do and had set limits in what it was allowed to do.... in the end ? it is the will of the people and the " consent " of the people that allowed the government to do anything.

[UnwashedPeasant]

“United States”? Shouldn’t we change it to “Diversity States”?

Unity is the opposite of diversity, so it is obviously racist.

[Kartographer]

Already posted, but maybe this time it won’t get hi-jack by a crazy!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3039239/posts

[TBP]

It’s used once in the Declaration of Independence.

[GOP Poet]

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[Ron C.]

Bull Pucky... I’d bet that the phrase had crossed many a lip long before the instances mentioned here. Likely it was spoken and heard if not thousands then most certainly hundreds of times prior.