Does the United States really exist? (continued)
In the real world, the Constitution was written by the best lawyers of the time. They used the term "United States" to mean the so-called United States as well as the so-called united States.
Don't believe me? Look at the District-of-Columbia Clause. Article I, Section 8, Clause 17. It provides that:
[Congress has the enumerated power] To exercise Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all places purchased with Consent of Legislature of the State in which the Same may be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings.
If the "United States" only included the so-called United States, but not the so-called united States, why would the so-called United States' constitution have to provide that it governed the so-called United States. That fact would be self evident. Imagine the constitution of, say, Texas. Do you think it provides for the Texas Legislature to do this, to do that, and to do the other thing, and then towards the end of the Texas Constitution, as a sort of after-thought, it would say that the Texas Legislature also has all sorts of authority over a place called Texas? This is what the united States crowd would have you believe.
In the final analysis, if you believe that even the dumbest sherriff's-brother-in-law-type judge in the United States is going to rule that the united States is different from the United States, then send money to the different Internet "lawyers" who promulagate such non-historical nonsense.
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