Do the U.S. really constitute a united country?

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The people who wrote the Constitution and those who voted it had a goal to create that is "a more perfect union". Still what is the measure of the perfection? Two hundred years of independent history, of steady and reputed democracy? What does "a union" mean? Finally, does USA manage nowadays to achieve such a "more perfect" union or does the USA constitute a united country?

We cannot deny that the U.S. today is a federation of fifty independent states covering 9.83 million km2 areas with about 308 million people. However, to properly answer the question above, besides these data we also need to decrypt what "united" does mean and then, by using different ways of understanding this word, we'll explore the nature of the U.S. union.

First of all according to the modern dictionary "united", stands for "produced by joint action" and, referring to the U.S. Such unity can be discovered through the history of its creation. Secondly, it means "made one" which supposes some common elements for all fifty states composing the Union. And finally, last but not least, to be united one need an agreement, thus, we should appreciate the U.S. nation as a harmonious one.

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[...] The new states progressively joined the Union and adopted the Constitution. Thereby, the common effort was created by the USA as one and integral entity with a unique Federal Constitution and as the result of its article II, with a unique President of the United States. The original Constitution contains the Preamble and seven articles mostly concerning federal organization of the country. The twenty-seven amendments were added progressively and the first ten of them are now an integral part of the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights. [...]

[...] Even today the USA is one of the main destinations for immigrants. Nowadays the population growth of the Hispanic and Latino Americans is a major demographic trend owing much too constant immigration from the neighboring countries. Moreover, during the XX century the USA was a privileged destination for immigrants from Eastern Europe and for Jews of different nationalities escaping nazi antisemitic terror during the World War II. So, even if there is an American stereotype, it doesn't fit to all Americans. [...]

[...] On the other hand, political formalities are not enough to constitute a United Nation; which is an agreement between the members of society. Then it comes some cultural and psychological aspects of harmonious life of the population. Even if there is no official language at federal level, the English language as the British heritage, is the most spread and used all over the USA. In 2006, about 224 million or 80% of the population aged five years and older spoke only English at home. [...]

[...] as a and united country”. The federal American system is one of the steadiest and centralized one's in the world, which is built on compromises and sometimes on furious war. Still, despite the daily reality that could possibly witness against U.S unity. Furthermore, important is that on the international level the USA is definitely considered as united and complete, powerful, wise and maybe dangerous partner by other countries. Bibliography - The English of Law: U.S. Law and Politics by A. [...]

[...] Do the U.S really constitute a united country? the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” (The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution) The people who wrote the Constitution and those who voted it had a goal to create that is more perfect union”. [...]