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  United States (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
United States of China, a political concept of a federalized China that includes the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China.
United States of South America was a dream of a strong federation in South America by Simón Bolívar.
United States of Greater Austria was a successor state to the Austro-Hungarian Empire proposed by Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas are commonwealths of the United States.
The social structure of the United States, a capitalist country, is highly stratified, with a large proportion of the wealth of the country controlled by a small fraction of the population which exerts disproportionate cultural and political influence.
The United States is also a great center of higher education, boasting more than 1,500 universities, colleges, and other institutions of higher learning, the top tier of which may be considered to be among the most prestigious and advanced in the world.
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 United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Northern states were opposed to the expansion of slavery whereas the Southern states saw the opposition as an attack on their way of life, since their economy was dependent on slave labor.
Federal law overrides state law in the areas in which the federal government is empowered to act; but the powers of the federal government are subject to limits outlined in the Constitution.
The economic history of the United States is a story of economic growth that began with marginally successful colonial economies and progressed to the largest industrial economy in the world in the 20th and early 21st century.
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 President of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The United States was the first nation to create the office of President as the head of state in a modern republic.
The president must be a natural-born citizen of the United States (or a citizen of the United States at the time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), be at least 35 years old, and have been a resident of the United States for 14 years.
The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States.
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The United States may be regarded as an example of a constitutional republic or as a liberal democracy, with a government composed of and operating through a set of limited powers imposed by its design and enumerated in that design or Constitution of the United States of America.
The United States does not have an official language at federal level; nevertheless, English is the first and/or only language of the overwhelming majority of the population and serves as the de facto official language: English is the language used for legislation, regulations, executive orders, treaties, federal court rulings, and all other official pronouncements.
Spanish follows English as the second-most spoken language in the United States, primarily due to the influence of recent Latin American immigrants and the fact that almost a fifth of its continental territory was originally part of Mexico, and it is a primary spoken language in some areas of the Southwest.
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In the Southern states, Baptists are the largest group, followed by Methodists; Roman Catholics are dominant in the Northeast and in large parts of the Midwest due to their being settled by descendants of Catholic immigrants from Europe (such as Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Poland) or other parts of America (mainly Quebec and Puerto Rico).
In the United States, education is a state, not federal, responsibility, and the laws and standards vary considerably.
In most states, all students must attend mandatory schooling starting with kindergarten, which children normally enter at age 5, and following through 12th grade, which is normally completed at age 18 (although in some states, students are permitted to drop out upon the age of 16 with the permission of their parents/guardians).
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 United States - WikiGadugi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The United States of America, also known as the United States, the U.S., the U.S.A., the U.S. of A., the States, and America is a country in North America.
However, although the United States is committed to the Western ideology to pursue human rights, the extent to which these rights are available in practice is debated: various forms of ethnic discrimination were not legally prohibited until the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Hawaii, the fiftieth state, is an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean.
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 United States - Gurupedia
The various state constitutions differ in some details but generally follow a pattern similar to that of the federal Constitution, including a statement of the rights of the people and a plan for organizing the government.
Because elections in the United States are among the most expensive in the world access to funds is vital in the political system due to the financial costs of mounting political campaigns.
The social structure of the United States is highly stratified, with a large proportion of the wealth of the country controlled by a small fraction of the population which exerts disproportionate cultural and political influence.
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 sociology - United States
The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America¹, the States, or (archaically) Columbia — is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii).
For admissions into the system, a fl male is, on average, 8-10 times more likely than a white male to be sent to prison for drug offenses, and, in the state with the largest discrepancy, Illinois, 57 times more likely [7].
Few organizations outside federal and state governments grant time off for this holiday, though many colleges and universities are increasingly observing the day with special events, and sometimes cancel classes to encourage students to attend them.
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 United States - Uncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This page could refer to anything on the list, or it could refer to Richard M. Nixon.
Relatively complete list of country articles on the United States/Neo Nazi Revolution!
States, districts and insular areas of the United States of America
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