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yes, it seems that scotland is slowly gettin there...

but (and i am getting tired of this part), our states have our own judicial, legislature, and executive branches. yes, we adhere to federal laws, but there are also state laws...i think your idea of a "country" is the same as my idea of a "state", and thats probably due to how we were taught in school...

so maybe we agree to disagree.

  • 04.03.2005 3:45 PM PDT
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My friend, you would not tell with ſuch high zeſt
To children ardent for ſome deſperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum eſt
Pro patria mori.

Well, not really. There is no state of New England, and yet that is the closest thing mainland USA has of a constituent country. I think it's conceptually very hard for a European or Asian to properly describe what a country actually is to an American; the socio-political spaces are just different.

You must understand that a country is not something which gains it's status through treaty or constitution; it's an entity which is a result of national perceptions and geographical heterogeneity. There is no one person who says what a country is. Again, the term has become confused with "state" and increasingly "nation-state".

  • 04.03.2005 5:41 PM PDT

Now that we are straying in to politics and stalemate, the time has come to lock this thread.

  • 04.03.2005 6:39 PM PDT

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