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None of the original states were independent nations

Posted on: August 30, 2017 at 11:13:59 CT

Spanky KU

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Please name the past presidents of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island

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Is the US an empire? - Ragnar Danneskjold MU

- 8/30 10:26:10

No... The US does not rule over any other nation. - Spanky KU - 8/30 10:43:10

Wrong answer---you will now draw flack from the loons - mu7176grad MU - 8/30 10:58:10

Agreed. For example, some tinfoil wearers - pickle MU

- 8/30 11:01:29

They paid me so not slavery - mu7176grad MU - 8/30 11:05:31

They stole my money. It was slavery. - pickle MU

- 8/30 11:08:21

Well the draft is gone so that issue is moot - mu7176grad MU - 8/30 11:13:40

The issue is not moot. - pickle MU

- 8/30 11:21:41

It rules over 50 of them - ummmm MU - 8/30 10:46:09

Missouri is not a nation - Spanky KU - 8/30 11:00:16

Sure it is. (nm) - ummmm MU - 8/30 11:57:54

What is the US a union of? (nm) - pickle MU

- 8/30 11:01:53

States... Please point to the state that was an independent - Spanky KU - 8/30 11:03:29

Texas - JG A - 8/30 11:14:07

You win - Spanky KU - 8/30 11:15:05

What are states? - pickle MU

- 8/30 11:07:19

None of the original states were independent nations - Spanky KU - 8/30 11:13:59

All of them were (nm) - pickle MU

- 8/30 11:21:59

Answer the request! - Spanky KU - 8/30 11:24:09

I'm kind of curious to hear this answer - Ragnar Danneskjold MU

- 8/30 11:06:21

Folks on here talk about "Kooks." - Evenflow MU - 8/30 10:44:19

Yes, and has been since at least the Spanish-American war - pickle MU

- 8/30 10:38:34

What nations does the US currently govern? - Spanky KU - 8/30 10:45:46

Alabama through Wyoming, for starters (nm) - ummmm MU - 8/30 10:49:38

Please show me where Alabama was ever a nation - Spanky KU - 8/30 11:02:16

What do you want me to do? Take you to Alabama and show you - ummmm MU - 8/30 11:58:53

Point to a valid source that says Alabama is (or was ) - Spanky KU - 8/30 12:15:34

The US Constitution. (nm) - ummmm MU - 8/30 12:17:43

what does ' of the several States' mean to you? - Spanky KU - 8/30 12:22:32

relating to more than one of the nation states - ummmm MU - 8/30 12:26:48

It does not say 'nation state' in the Constitution - Spanky KU - 8/30 12:35:30

Irrelevant. - ummmm MU - 8/30 12:41:11

Yes.. your point was pointless - Spanky KU - 8/30 12:42:56

It does say that? Where? (nm) - ummmm MU - 8/30 12:47:22

I am waiting for you to back your claim that the - Spanky KU - 8/30 13:01:50

The Constitution didn't declare it. The individual states - ummmm MU - 8/30 13:03:57

You still cannot show any state that declared itself - Spanky KU - 8/30 13:09:15

I can show you where 11 of them did it in the 1860's - ummmm MU - 8/30 13:12:34

They became CSA states.... - Spanky KU - 8/30 15:27:44

Yes, a confederation of independent states. (nm) - ummmm MU - 8/30 15:30:10

With ONE president - Spanky KU - 8/30 15:32:59

It's one right now (nm) - pickle MU

- 8/30 11:09:11

Buy a vowel - Spanky KU - 8/30 11:21:16

Yes, it is clearly an empire. - ummmm MU - 8/30 10:31:54

My goodness, you're further out there than i thought. nm - hokie VT - 8/30 11:07:51

interesting, who are these oligarchs? do we govern - Ragnar Danneskjold MU

- 8/30 10:44:28

RE: interesting, who are these oligarchs? do we govern - ummmm MU - 8/30 10:49:05

Don't we elect the politicians? and if we don't like what - Ragnar Danneskjold MU

- 8/30 11:01:50

I haven't elected any of these politicians. (nm) - ummmm MU - 8/30 11:58:26

Subject? No. - pickle MU

- 8/30 10:52:49

It is more of a rolling party barge. - catbirdseat MU

- 8/30 10:29:48