Noun

the United States

  1. (singular) Shortened form of the United States of America.
  2. (plural) The collection of individual states of the United States of America.
  3. (military) Includes the land area, internal waters, territorial sea, and airspace of the United States, including the following:
    • US territories, possessions, and commonwealths; and
    • Other areas over which the US Government has complete jurisdiction and control or has exclusive authority or defense responsibility

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Mon Jun 15 15:21:01 2009

The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to its east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories, or insular areas, in the Caribbean and Pacific.

At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with about 306 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and third largest by land area and by population. The United States is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the largest national economy in the world, with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) of US $14.3 trillion (23% of the world total based on nominal GDP and almost 21% at purchasing power parity).

The nation was founded by thirteen colonies of Great Britain located along the Atlantic seaboard. On July 4, 1776, they issued the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed their independence from Great Britain and their formation of a cooperative union. The rebellious states defeated Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, the first successful colonial war of independence. The Philadelphia Convention adopted the current United States Constitution on September 17, 1787; its ratification the following year made the states part of a single republic with a strong central government. The Bill of Rights, comprising ten constitutional amendments guaranteeing many fundamental civil rights and freedoms, was ratified in 1791.

In the 19th century, the United States acquired land from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Russia, and annexed the Republic of Texas and the Republic of Hawaii. Disputes between the agrarian South and industrial North over states' rights and the expansion of the institution of slavery provoked the American Civil War of the 1860s. The North's victory prevented a permanent split of the country and led to the end of legal slavery in the United States. By the 1870s, the national economy was the world's largest. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a military power. In 1945, the United States emerged from World War II as the first country with nuclear weapons, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and a founding member of NATO. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union left the United States as the sole superpower. The country accounts for approximately 50% of global military spending and is a leading economic, political, and cultural force in the world.

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Mon Jul 6 00:39:37 2009

How does the United States enter into a treaty agreement?
Q. Rank the following 6 actions in order from first to last action: A. The treaty is brought before the entire United States Senate where it is ratified by a two-thirds vote. B. Representatives of the United States meet with representatives of a foreign government and they negotiate a treaty. C. The President of the United States sends a copy of the treaty to the United States senate. D.The treaty has been agreed upon , formally written down, and signed by a representative of the U.S and foreign government. E.The treaty is sent to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations which decides to act upon it favorably. F. The foreign government is notified that the treaty has been formally ratified. Thanks for the help. I lost my textbook
Asked by Nerds Rule! - Fri Feb 29 10:53:13 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. bdcaef i think
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Why does the United States make it so difficult to transcend social class?
Q. We declare ourselves beacons of freedom and equality, but only people with wealth in the first place can afford to get a good education at the post-secondary level. For those that don't have the money, a college education is out of reach...keeping them in a lower social class. In most European countries, the cost of college education is significantly lower. If you want to get ahead in life, you have the opportunity to. Here, that doesn't exist. Why does the United States support social stratification?
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In united states of america what is best way to offer to a gentleman your?
Q. your modesty? is there a special way of offerance of it? i am customary to showing it and give him the chance to say yes or no. If he declines it I must wait 72 hours before offering again. Where does this action take place in united states of america please? Thank you for advice in advance.
Asked by spmk_009 - Thu Jun 4 00:28:06 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. What exactly is "your modesty" that you are offering him?? Just wondering!! This doesn't seem to be a term we use!
Answered by Patti - Thu Jun 4 00:33:32 2009

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By Americans

  • "America is the land of the uncommon man. It is the land where man is free to develop his genius -- and to get its just rewards."
  • "America - where even the son of a President can grow up to be President."
  • "America - a conservative country without any conservative ideology-appears now before the world a naked and arbitrary power, as, in the name of realism, its men of decision enforce their often crackpot definitions upon world reality. The second-rate mind is in command of the ponderously spoken platitude. In the liberal rhetoric, vagueness, and in the conservative mood, irrationality, are raised to principle. Public relations and the official secret, the trivializing campaign and the terrible fact clumsily accomplished, are replacing the reasoned debate of political ideas in the privately incorporated economy, the military ascendancy, and the political vacuum of modern America.