On November 15, 1777, the Continental Congress approved, and sent to the states for ratification, the “Articles of Confederation — after 16 months of deliberation. The first article gave the official name of the confederacy:
The Stile of this Confederacy shall be
The United States of America.
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We ought all to recognize that, just as the People’s Republic of China is not China itself, the United States of America were not, are not, and is not America itself. In all cases, we should resist calling a nation by the name of its governing institution.