What is the USA? Is it a group of countries (called 'states') which formed a union, like the European Union? ie, they have their own different politics, laws, languages, etc but are under the same president and have the same currency?
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The USA (United States of America) is on whole country, it is split up into 50 states, which would be the similiar as regions in the UK, and there is only one currency; the US dollar. Hope this helps.
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Please tell me this is an April Fool's joke
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Good question. States are almost like countries, but more like very large counties. No one in New York considers any other state 'foreign', but New York has certain autonomy from other states. The federal government rules over all the states, but not in all issues. Fine question.
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That was pretty much the intention of our founding fathers. Some of them would have said that was still to much federal government, but they compromised. Good job.
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Boy, with that intelligence, you should have run for president of the US!
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It's a complex issue and changes over time, but put very briefly, the states were rather like independent countries until the Constitution was signed. However, southern states during the Civil War considered themselves sovereign and only loosely tied to the rest of the southern states by means of a confederacy. Since the Civil War the federal government has for the most part dominated. The exact position and status of states depends on your point of view. A Libertarian for example would probably contend that the states should be more powerful than the federal government since the Constitution reserves all powers for the states that are not outlined in the Constitution. Most Americans would probably say they are citizens of the US first with little loyalty to the state they live in.
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It was, until Lincoln took that away from us.
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The US is a singe country, as seen from the outside. It was formed from a number of different states, which could (and in one case [Texas] did, for a short time) function as independent countries. The intention was that the individual states should cede to the central, federal, government only that minimum set of powers necessary to run a unified country. There, things which do not have to be uniform across the country are set on a state-by-state basis. Each state has its own political system to control these things. But many countries have regions with equivalent levels of autonomy e.g. Scotland within the UK.
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