Longman 13 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 2013 http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/federal
fed‧e‧ral
1 a federal country or system of government consists of a group of states which control their own affairs, but which are also controlled by a single national government which makes decisions on foreign affairs, defence etc:
2 relating to the central government of a country such as the US, rather than the government of one of its states:
federal law
federal taxes
United States is the country that geographically occupies the 50 states it encompasses.
The American Heritage Dictionary, bartleby.com/61/, 2000 2K
United States of America... A country of central and northwest North America with coastlines on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It includes the noncontiguous states of Alaska and Hawaii and various island territories in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. The area now occupied by the contiguous 48 states was originally inhabited by numerous Native American peoples and was colonized beginning in the 16th century by Spain, France, the Netherlands, and England. Great Britain eventually controlled most of the Atlantic coast and, after the French and Indian Wars (1754–1763), the Northwest Territory and Canada.
"United States" means the territory over which the sovereign nation of the "United States" exercises sovereign power
Ballentine's 95 (Legal Dictionary and Thesaurus, p. 689)
United States - the territory over which this sovereign nation called the “United States” exercises sovereign power
United States is one nation
Words and Phrases Second Series, 1914, Updated 1964, Volume 4, 1905, pg. 1074.
The “United States” are for many important purposes a single nation, and in all commercial regulations we are one and the same people.
Territories are the United States
Title 5 US Code -EXPCITE- TITLE 5 PART III Subpart F CHAPTER 71 SUBCHAPTER I -HEAD- Sec. 7103. Definitions; application, “The US Code defines the term "United States"” http://freedom-school.com/code-defines-united-states.pdf
(18) 'United States' means the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and any territory or possession of the United States.
US is only the states and DC
Legal Information Institute 12 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/7701
USC › Title 26 › Subtitle F › Chapter 79 › § 770 26 USC § 7701 – Definitions (9) United States
The term “United States” when used in a geographical sense includes only the States and the District of Columbia.
“United States” is the USA
Encarta 7 (Dictionary Online, “United States”, http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861708119)
U·nit·ed States [ y ntəd stáyts ] country in central North America, consisting of 50 states.
Languages: English.
Currency: dollar.
Capital: Washington, D.C..
Population: 290,342,550 (2001).
Area: 9,629,047 sq km (3,717,796 sq mi.)
Official name United States of America
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