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		Precipitation of the Individual States and of the Conterminous States
		Sample printable map of Precipitation of the individual States and of the Conterminous States maps
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	United States - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The United States is 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, American 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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	United States territorial acquisitions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Texas Annexation of 1845: In 1836 the Republic of Texas voted to be annexed by the United States.
		This territory was later used for the southern transcontinental railroad.
		The territory was mostly retroceded to Mexico by treaty in 1963.
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	United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Manifest Destiny was a philosophy that encouraged westward expansion in the United States: as the population of the Eastern states grew and as a steady increase of immigrants entered the country, settlers moved steadily westward across North America.
		The Congress of the United States is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States.
		Forty-eight of the states are in the single region between Canada and Mexico; this group is referred to, with varying precision and formality, as the continental or contiguous United States, sometimes abbreviated CONUS, and as the Lower 48.
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		The United States was founded under a tradition of government based on the consent of the governed under the representative democracy model.
		During the Cold War, the United States was a major player in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and was considered one of Two superpowers along with the Soviet Union; with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the nation emerged as the world's leading economic and military power.
		The United States is a great center of higher education, boasting more than 4,000 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 territory information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This extent of territory is all the area belonging to, and under the dominion of, the United States federal government (which includes tracts lying at a distance from the country) for administrative and other purposes.
		The United States Department of the Interior is not responsible for local government or for civil administration except in the cases of Indian reservations, through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, as well as those territories administered through the Office of Insular Affairs.
		Territories are, at times, organized with a separate legislature under a Territorial governor and officers appointed by the President and approved by the Senate of the United States.
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	United States - Knowmore (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, the structure of the nation was profoundly changed in 1788, when the states replaced the Articles of Confederation with the United States Constitution; the date on which each of the original 13 states adopted the Constitution is typically regarded as the date that state "entered the Union" (became part of the United States).
		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 Constitution of the United States sets out the powers of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government and recognizes a number of rights of its citizens, including freedom of speech, the right to keep and bear arms, freedom of religion, trial by jury, and protection from cruel and unusual punishment.
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		The United States does not have an official language at federal level; nevertheless, English is spoken by the vast majority of the population and serves as the de facto language: English is the language used for legislation, regulations, executive orders, treaties, federal court rulings, and all other official pronouncements.
		The social structure of the United States is somewhat stratified, with a significant class of very wealthy individuals, who are often alleged to hold disproportionate cultural and political influence.
		The United States Armed Forces is the most powerful military in the world and their force projection capabilities are unrivaled by any other single nation.
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	CITES BY TOPIC: United States
		The term "people," therefore, in that State, means, first, all the citizens of the State in the aggregate (i.e., the members of the body politic), and secondly, the body politic itself; and while in the former sense it is plural, in the latter sense it is singular.
		The original difference between "United States" and "Union" was that, while the former was concrete, the latter was abstract; and hence it is that the latter cannot be substituted for the former when used in its original sense.
		United States — means by default, all places and waters, continental or insular, subject to the sovereign jurisdiction of the United States under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the Constitution of the United States of America.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/United States
		The United States of America—also referred to as the United States, the USA, the U.S. America, the States, and (poetically) Columbia—is a democratic federal republic of fifty states located primarily in central North America.
		However, the structure of the United States was profoundly changed in 1788 when the states replaced the Articles of Confederation with the United States Constitution; often, sources use the date each of the original 13 states adopted the Constitution as the date on that state "entered the Union" (became part of the United States).
		Because the United States is such a relatively young nation, most of the development of US cities has taken place after the invention of the automobile.
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	United States - Haiti (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The United States of America—also referred to as the United States, the USA, the U.S. America, the States, and (poetically) Columbia—is a democratic federal republic of fifty states located primarily in central North America.
		The United States does not have an official language at federal level; nevertheless, English is spoken by the vast majority of the population and serves as the de facto 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 it is a primary spoken language in some areas of the Southwest.
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	United States - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		As of 2004, the United States was the home of approximately 336 languages (spoken or signed), of which 176 are indigenous to the area.
		The United States Constitution makes provision for the rights of freedom of speech, the right to keep and bear arms, freedom of religion, trial by jury, and protection from "cruel and unusual punishment." The United States accepts many immigrants, and has anti-discrimination laws to protect minority groups (usually in the form of "hate crime" legislation).
		As of 2004, the United States has possibly the world's largest prison population at over 2 million inmates; note that the People's Republic of China in particular is suspected of not releasing accurate figures, or of failing to document some prisoners.
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	ColombiaLink.com - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - AN INTRODUCTION
		The Constitution of the United States sets out the powers of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government and provides for a number of rights for its citizens, including freedom of speech, the right to keep and bear arms, freedom of religion, trial by jury, and protection from cruel and unusual punishment.
		Following union-victory in that event in 1865, the independent status of the individual states has not been broached again by any state, and the status of each state within the union, has been deemed by mainstream officials and academics to be settled as being subordinate to the union as a whole.
		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.
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	THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA USA
		Manifest Destiny was a philosophy that encouraged westward expansion in the United States: as the population of the Eastern states grew and as a steady increase of immigrants entered the country, settlers moved steadily westward across North America.
		The United States currently enjoys a positive relationship with the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, and Poland, among several others, in that these nations are participating as active military allies with, or logistical supporters of, the United States in all theaters.
		The United States is often under criticism from Western governments and NGOs concerning lengthy detention without trial, forced confessions, torture, and mistreatment of prisoners as well as some restrictions on freedoms of speech and the press, as being violations of their definition of human rights.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The United States of America
		In this great acquisition of territory is to be found one of the earliest causes of the quarrel with the mother country.
		In examining the constitutionality of a state law one is to assume that the state legislature has power to pass all acts whatever, unless they are prohibited by the Constitution of the United States or by the constitution of the state.
		It also provides that the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states; for the return of fugitives from justice and for the admission of new states.
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	History of United States continental expansion Summary
		As citizens of the United States and immigrants migrated westward in the first half of the nineteenth century, they brought to new communities and states educational experiments and plans that had first taken shape in Europe and the Eastern states.
		It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with United States territorial acquisitions(Discuss) The United States began as a confederation of thirteen former British colonies on the eastern seaboard of the Atlantic Ocean, with relative...
		History of United States continental expansion: A government map, probably created in the mid-20th century, that depicts a simplified history of territorial acquistions within the continental United States.
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	United States - All About All (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		Because the United States is a relatively young nation, most of the development of U.S. cities has taken place after the invention of the automobile.
		To link its vast territories, the United States built a network of high capacity, high speed highways, of which the most important aspect is the Interstate Highway system, commissioned in the 1950s by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and modeled after the German Autobahn.
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	Executive Order: Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management
		It is the policy of the United States that Federal agencies conduct their environmental, transportation, and energy-related activities under the law in support of their respective missions in an environmentally, economically and fiscally sound, integrated, continuously improving, efficient, and sustainable manner.
		The head of an agency may provide that this order shall apply in whole or in part with respect to the activities, personnel, resources, and facilities of the agency that are not located within the United States, if the head of the agency determines that such application is in the interest of the United States.
		(l) "United States" when used in a geographical sense, means the fifty states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and associated territorial waters and airspace.
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		In addition, any person who violates a rule (irrespective of the state of knowledge) is liable for injury caused to consumers by the rule violation.
		Except as otherwise provided by law, the Attorney General is responsible for the conduct of all litigation in which the United States, or one of its agencies, is a party (28 U.S.C. Sec.
		In addition to these specific grants of representational authority, there are several situations in which the Department of Justice may appoint Commission attorneys as special United States Attorneys to represent the United States in litigation conducted by the Department of Justice.
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	Top20UnitedStates.com - Your Top20 Guide to United States!
		After attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, the United States and other allied nations started what they called the "War on Terrorism" and later the pre-emptive war in Iraq.
		Americans (except for some felons) enjoy universal suffrage from the age of 18; however, the national representation of territories and the federal district of Washington, DC in Congress is limited.
		The largest trading partner of the United States is Canada (20%), followed by Mexico (12%), China (11%) and Japan (8%).
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	United States - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The official founding date of the United States is July 4, 1776, the date the Second Continental Congress, representing the thirteen British colonies, adopted the Declaration of Independence.
		Following the European colonization of the Americas, thirteen colonies split from Great Britain and formed the United States, the world's first constitutional and democratic federal republic, after their Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Revolutionary War (1775–1783).
		The majority of the 295 million people currently living in the United States descend from European immigrants who have arrived since the establishment of the first colonies.
	www.unipedia.info /US.html (5300 words)

	Printable Maps - Territorial Acquisitions
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		The National Atlas has prepared a Territorial Acquisitions map of the United States that you can print or use online.
		This map portrays the major acquisitions of territory by the United States from 1783 to the present.
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	ipedia.com: Historic regions of the United States Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		These are historic regions of the United States, meaning regions that were legal entities in the past, or which the average American would no longer recognize as a regional description.
		The following are land grants, purchases or settlements made within an area that was already part of the original 13 colonies or a state of the Union or U.S. territory.
		Louisiana Territory (1805–1812), preceded by District of Louisiana
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	Henry Putney Beers Papers (Library of Congress)
		Works Progress Administration Subjects: Archival surveys Depressions--1929--United States Public records World War, 1939-1945 United States--History--Bibliography United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945 Occupations: Archivists Bibliographers Historians Administrative Information Provenance: The papers of Henry Putney Beers, archivist, historian, and bibliographer, were given to the Library of Congress in two installments by Beers in 1980 and 1992.
		Copyright Status: The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Henry Putney Beers in these papers is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
		The professional office file chronicles his surveys of federal records while with the Works Progress Administration and the National Archives as well as his stint as project editor with The Territorial Papers of the United States.
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