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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It absolutely did. Those states still operated as independent entities. They were united on the issue of declaring independence. Until the Constitution was signed, the states were not united as a nation.

[–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you think Rome didn't exist before Caesar Augustus took power?

Did England spring from William of Normandy's forehead fully formed, clad in a wool coat and singing Rule Brittania?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Neither of those were multiple independent nations.

[–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

What's your point? It wasn't one country yet either. I mean that seems to support what I was saying...