Monday, September 02, 2013

united States

Have you ever noticed closely the text of the Declaration of Independence?

"The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America." 

Notice that "States" is capitalized, but that "united" is not. I wonder if there is any significance to that. Further down in the document it refers to "United Colonies," so the capitalization in the heading may be purely happenstance. But I wonder.

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