Why do so many people refer to state lines boundaries as "borders"?  Borders relate to national boundaries!
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*&*&*&\n\n\nBoundary is the perimeter around a state and a Border is any part of the boundary
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They border each other, so you cannot give a distance in miles, depends on how wide the border is I guess.
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Why not a closed-border advocate? Open borders with Mexico means Mexico's problems become America's problems. No 'shotgun marriages' to Mexico, please...\nSupport the US Border Patrol!
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Write about how contacts like this Internet site are changing the nature of national boundaries.  When we can effectively talk to the whole world, make friends everywhere -- even get to know people without even knowing what country they are in -- then the whole idea of being contained by national boundaries is very insubstantial.  True, it still takes physically moving by way of transportation and immigration laws and passports and all that; but the ideas and the contacts that facilitate travel are in place long before a person sets foot outside their own door.  People no longer sit in their wretched conditions and only imagine what the rest of the world has.  They get pictures and sound and stories of the rest of the world, and they want the freedom to go and see and do for themselves.  Tyrants have a tough time these days!
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I think what you mean is, if we had to draw lines differentiating the different oceans and bodies of water, where would we draw these lines? \n\nUnfortunately, I dont think there is any real correct answer.\nThese boundaries are kind of ambiguous and flowing....just like the oceans themselvess! Oceans aren't like countries, which have set boundaries established by wars and treaties, etc. Oceans flow into each other and are all connected. The best we can do is approximate. \n\nGood question, though.
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youre both right.  the boundary is the line you want to draw.  then shade the up or down side.
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Many of the US state borders in the east were formed along natural features, while many of those in the west are along lines of latitude and longitude? A possible explanation is that the state borders in the west were decided much later, after the scientific methods of determining latitude and longitude had been perfected.
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Because they are a territory not a state
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The decisions were political--decided by colonizers like England, by war, by land deals with other countries, and by Congress and the President.\n The boundaries were sometimes based on natural features--as previous answerer indicated, or sometimes based arbitrarily on latitude or longitude. \nThe boundaries of the first thirteen states were influenced by the boundaries of the early colonies. \nIn addition, some boundaries were decided by war with European countries (or their successors) (the states bordering Mexico and Canada, for instance), or by land purchases (Louisiana, and states along the Mississippi; Alaska).
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The reason why different groups of people claimed lands as their own and ultimately leading to the term 'country' is b/c humans, just like animals, are territorial... possessive. We want to be able to call something our own.
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Being from Texas, I've been aware of this issue for at least a decade. What's amazing to me is how some people can't see the difference between legal and illegal. They keep yapping about how racist it is to want to guard the U.S. border. They're obviously clueless as to what this constant invasion will mean to the future of the U.S. \nBut it has opened my eyes to how much our elected politicians do not want to stop the invasion.
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It is merely the name of that court,  areas of the nation or states are divided into "circuits" or areas where that court has jurisdiction.\n\nIt comes from the old days when a judge would ride a horse or wagon and travel a "circuit" of varoius court houses.\nSimular to preachers who did a ciruit of churches.\n\nIt merely means the area the court covers as divided by the government
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The term nation is often used as a synonym for ethnic group (sometimes "ethnos"), but although ethnicity is now one of the most important aspects of cultural or social identity for the members of most nations, people with the same ethnic origin may live in different nation-states and be treated as members of separate nations for that reason.\n\nIn political geography and international politics a country is a geographical territory.\n\nso in simple terms - a nation consists of people and a country is a physical location.
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In the United States - each state has it's own democratic government officially represented by a "Governor" with State Representatives and Senators serving as representatives in the U.S. Congress and Senate.  Within each State are cities and townships officially represented by Mayors, Council, and/or other elected representatives.  It's confusing, isn't it?  All the States make up the country of the United States of America and all the States are bound to follow the laws of the country as a whole.  It works well... allowing people who want positions in politics plenty of spots to fill (meaning it's not likely we'll get overhauled by one guy who wants to be King) and allowing each and every citizen a voice by voting for the right people to represent them.
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"untied states"?\n\nwhere the heck is that?
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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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Some people say that since there is a Central, South, and North America, people in the US aren't the only Americans. It is annoying because we have been called Americans forever, and I don't know why this word is popping up now.