Little
do Americans know, the several State republics are technically
COUNTRIES united under and by the Constitution. Even the Feds are quite
aware of this. Here is one such example;
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/297
(a)
The Chief Justice or the chief judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit may assign any
circuit, district, magistrate, or territorial judge of a court of the
Ninth Circuit, with the consent of the judge so assigned, to serve
temporarily as a judge of any duly constituted court of the freely
associated compact states whenever an official duly authorized by the
laws of the respective compact state requests such assignment and such
assignment is necessary for the proper dispatch of the business of the
respective court.
(b)
The Congress consents to the acceptance and
retention by any judge so authorized of reimbursement from the
countries referred to in subsection (a) of all necessary travel
expenses, including transportation, and of subsistence, or of a
reasonable per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence. The judge shall
report to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts any
amount received pursuant to this subsection.
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State of the UNION address... United States is a UNION.
"The United States shall guarantee to every state in this UNION a
republican form of government, and shall protect each of THEM against
invasion..."
~Article IV, section 4 of the U.S. Constituton
These definitions are taken from Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856:
STATE. government. This word is used in various senses. In its most
enlarged sense, it signifies a self-sufficient body of persons united
together in one community for the defence of their rights, and to do
right and justice to foreigners. In this sense, the state means the
whole people united into one body politic; (q. v.) and the state, and
the people of the state, are equivalent expressions. 1 Pet. Cond. Rep.
37 to 39; 3 Dall. 93; 2 Dall. 425; 2 Wilson's Lect. 120; Dane's Appx.
§50, p. 63 1 Story, Const. §361. In a more limited sense, the word
`state' expresses merely the positive or actual organization of the
legislative, or judicial powers; thus the actual government of the state
is designated by the name of the state; hence the expression, the state
has passed such a law, or prohibited such an act. State also means the
section of territory occupied by a state, as the state of Pennsylvania.
NATIONS. Nations or STATES are independent bodies politic; societies of
men united together for the purpose of promoting their mutual safety
and advantage by the joint efforts of their combined strength.
COUNTRY. By country is meant the STATE of which one is a member.
UNION. By this word is understood the United States of America.
Case law explaining the different contexts of the term "United States":
Hooven & Allison Co. v. Evatt, 324 U.S. 652 (1945): "The term
"United States" may be used in any one of several senses. [1] It may be
merely the name of a sovereign occupying the position analogous to that
of other sovereigns in the family of nations. [2] It may designate the
territory over which the sovereignty of the United States extends, or
[3] IT MAY BE THE COLLECTIVE NAME OF THE STATES WHICH ARE UNITED BY AND
UNDER THE CONSTITUTION."
