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- proper noun The
United States of America .
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Examples
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The rule being waived, Mr. Blount moved that this House, preceded by the Speaker, do now proceed to witness the ceremony of the ratification of the Ordinance of Secession of this State from the Union of the confederacy once known as the United States of North America, and at the conclusion of that ceremony that this House do return to its chamber;
House Journal--10th Sess. A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, at Its Tenth Session, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Tallahassee, on Monday, November 26, 1860. Florida. General Assembly. House of Representatives 1861
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In which case a United States of North America still makes sense.
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And some tough questions for one of the architects of a plan to create a United States of North America.
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Any day now there will be an announcement of suspected beers of mass quantities in the Great White North and we won't be allowed testing inspections, then before you know it, it is The United States of North America.
Why Do I Carry Two Passports? Rogers 2006
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Still ahead here, we continue our series reports on the so-called United States of North America.
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United States of North America: being replies to questions transmitted by the British Anti-slavery Society to the American
On Human Nature 2004
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The United States of North America exhibit the attempt to proceed without any such arbitrary basis; that is to say, to allow abstract right to prevail pure and unalloyed.
On Human Nature 2004
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So you had these three guys, probably drinking beer in Philadelphia, sitting before a little sliver of land along the East Coast of the United -- it wasn't even the United States of North America, thousands of miles away from where the action was in the world, which was Europe.
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The latter felt that even though Cuba had to wait a long time to expect independence, the nascent Cuban nationality could not and should not be sacrificed by uniting this land and people with the United States of North America.
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In other words, their interests as owners, their interests as a class, thinking solely of those interests, led them to think of annexation by the United States of North America as the solution.
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