• Flying Squid
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    -21 year ago

    It absolutely did. Those states still operated as independent entities. They were united on the issue of declaring independence. Until the Constitution was signed, the states were not united as a nation.

    • @Zoboomafoo
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      21 year ago

      Do you think Rome didn’t exist before Caesar Augustus took power?

      Did England spring from William of Normandy’s forehead fully formed, clad in a wool coat and singing Rule Brittania?

      • Flying Squid
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        11 year ago

        Neither of those were multiple independent nations.

        • @Zoboomafoo
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          1 year ago

          Neither were the 13 colonies

          • Flying Squid
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            11 year ago

            What’s your point? It wasn’t one country yet either. I mean that seems to support what I was saying…