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
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
72 posted on
05/19/2005 8:02:24 AM PDT by
libertarianben
(Looking for sanity and his hard to find cousin common sense)
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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