Is the United States of America and the United States the same thing?
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yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa we get lazy and leave off the last two words..
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Yes it is. The US recognizes legal marriages from all countries.
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The United States, \nsince America geographically refers to the entire new world; north, central and south.
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What does U.S. stand for? UNITED States. Diversity has it's roots in division and divisiveness. What was once a "melting pot" where people from all over the world came to be part of something great is now a shattered dream with fragments clashing rather than melding together. Diversity is killing America and leaving behind a broken dream and a lost hope. If we don't get rid of the "-" American philosophy we will have gotten rid of America. To me, calling yourself a ___-American is like a married woman calling herself ___-Whatever(Rodham-Clinton for instance). It simply means that the bets are hedged and the old name is still too important to fully adopt the new. Be proud of who you are and where you came from yes, but be prouder of who you became and where you are now.
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Most US states have their own constitutions, just like the American Constitution.  The Constitution defines the state or country as an entity and is the foundation of the laws of the country or state.  They usually define the basic rights of the citizens and the workings of the government.
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What I know is that the USA are thought to be the center of the world.It seems to me that only Americans have the right to live.
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It always apart of the US, what makes you think it wasn't?
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From the perspective of people in the US, only we are Americans,  but if you go to Spain, and some other parts of the world South America is America, and they are considered Americans. So: it depends on who you talk to.  \nI generally say I'm from the US: it seems a little colonial to usurp legit claims from everyone else in two continents.
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North and South Americans can refer to themselves as Americans, to be technical about it.  \n\nIt goes back to the genesis of our country.  Canada and Mexico are actual names of countries.  The states all have names, too.  But the United States was at the begining a discription, and it was meant that way.  The federal government was supposed to have as little power as possible, with responsibility that COULD be allocated to the states BEING allocated to the states.  Therefore, the federal government was referred to as "the federal government of these united states."  Note no capital letters, and the plural tense.  In popular culture the federal government was just a entity on paper, necessary but not wanted.  People used to say, for example, "The united states are in recessions", referring to all the states as entities, not a single country as an entity.  People did not refer to themselves in terms of a country, only states - Californian, Texan, Virginian.\n\nThat all changed with the Civil War.  The influence of the Civil War was so profound that the entire mindset of popular culture in the US changed.  "united states" went from being a discription to the name of our country, "The United States".  Even though grammatically it is wrong ("The United States is in a recession" is not grammatically correct) the accepted usage changed.\n\nThis creates a problem - as a name, we could call ourselves "United Statesers" or "United Statesians" but these are clumsy and awkward.  Before the Civil War, when people wanted to refer to themselves at the federal level, they just called themselves "Americans" because the country didn't have a name, only the government did (Federal), so they just used the name of the continent.  The term also applies to Mexicans, Canadians, and everyone else in the New World - but these countries started out with names so the citizens had no need to refer to themselves as Americans.  By the Civil War, there was already a 250 year history of referring to ourselves first by the State, then by the Continent.  \n\nAt this point, even by the end of the Civil War, precident made it impossible to change.
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The United States of America
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The United States of America do doubt about it.
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You said it. Some of the states united.
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It's the other way around - the USA is part of the UN.
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e. United States of America
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Are those of this country (im talking about the USA)?
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Just that a state.  There are atleast 2 states for each location in the Continental (USA). i.e. there is the United States (a Corporation of the District of Columbia) and then the United States of America, representing the Republic that was formed by our constitution.
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The full name of the country is The United States of America. \n\n"America" is  a shortened version of the full name. \n\nTrust me on this one, most Americans are well aware that the Continent of North America also includes Canada and Mexico!!\n\nIt is simply a shortened version of our country's name. We also refer to our country as the USA.\n\nPlease, please, please, can everybody just get over this for once and for all, and find something more important to take umbrage about?