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To: libertarianben

"Actually we are."

No, we are not.

em-pire: A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.

In what way does that describe America?


30 posted on 05/18/2005 7:38:48 PM PDT by L98Fiero
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To: L98Fiero
em-pire: A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.

In what way does that describe America?

Well, America indisputably has an extensive territory - the fourth largest nation in the world - and it is ruled by a single Supreme Court.

31 posted on 05/18/2005 7:44:41 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: L98Fiero

Read history.


72 posted on 05/19/2005 8:02:24 AM PDT by libertarianben (Looking for sanity and his hard to find cousin common sense)
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To: L98Fiero
em-pire: A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.

Let see, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Samoa, Puerto Rico, New York - I'd say we are an empire.

73 posted on 05/19/2005 1:54:06 PM PDT by jackbob
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