• Flying Squid
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    2 years 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.

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      2 years 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?

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        2 years ago

        Neither of those were multiple independent nations.

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            2 years ago

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