You can read about the intended purpose of this topic HERE . I try to start at the beginning, the Bible, when the terms can be found. You will never reach the whole truth starting some 6000 years after the beginning. I want to keep Terms of Art on topic. Feel free to add any of the various meanings...

notmartha, All of those definitions from Black's Law Dictionary mean what? Unless you start at the beginning, the creation of The United States of America , and study from that point in time forward, you will never know the true meanings of the words. Black's isn't going to give you the truth. For o...

Mine in black, Michael's in red: “Them” qualifies “United States” as plural, referring to the independent states as a collective. It may be plural, but the fact remains that this is not talking about the free and independent States of the Perpetual Union If they do not refer to the collective of th...

You said: The United States of America was a confederation before it became a federation with the ratification of the current U.S. constitution in 1788. I said not such thing. That is a quote form the link I provided, that I put in red so as to make it stand out and I addressed it in blue. If you h...

If the Articles of Confederation were in fact a conspiracy, do you really want to be part of that and take any claim to them? Have you read what the Bible has to say about confederations? LOL!!! Sorry, but you know not what you are talking about. What is a conspiracy? Is it always a bad thing? Peop...

The intent, in 1787, was to change the AOC: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?a ... it(jc03225)) The link is broken. It is not absurd that George Washington and his ilk created, with the resolutions, the means to create a Constitutional dictatorship. Please try to copy and paste the link. The h...

I deleted my original post and replaced it with this one. Making legislation about some possible future state of affairs is absurd. I'd find it hard to believe that it was even lawful, presuming that the constitution would be ratified, when it had not been written yet. The intent, in 1787, was to ch...

Concerning the Resolution of [Continental] Congress on Public Lands, October 10, 1780: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(jc01830)) “…shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States ” “common” means shared among several. The land was to be disposed o...

October 10, 1780 Resolution of Congress on Public Lands. Resolved that any unappropriated lands that are ceded to the United States (the collective of 13 free and independent states), The United States is NOT the thirteen free and independent states of the perpetual Union , and nowhere in the Resol...

You may want to read the attached document as well.