I think American works for us because it is part of the name of our country. Although others are “Americans” as in living on American continents, their countries have other names and thus can be referred to by them. Just my two cents.
We are Individual States (countries) that are united. Our government schools failed to teach this.
We are Individual States (countries) that are united.
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The 17th Amendment has caused nothing but problems. Now Liberals are claiming that the Founding Fathers put in place a system of government that is against Democracy.
Exactly! We are a Constitutional Republic that protects the rights given to us by God against the Liberal/Socialist/Progressives ideal of Mob Rule in the guise of Democracy.
Excellent observation! Not only schools failed to educate, but MSM has chosen to ignore. The whole model of the 'United States' in the public consensus today is that it is one huge unified autocracy.
IMHO, this situation may be an unintended side effect of the American Civil War. Lincoln intended to 'preserve the Union', but the effect seems to be to have diminished state's rights.
IMHO, the fault partially lies in the term 'civil war'. Look the term up in a dictionary; it is defined as two or more factions fighting to gain control of a sovereign state'. BUT, the South did not wish to impose power (slavery) upon the North - they wanted to dis-unite from the Union and form a new sovereign aggregate of states. That is NOT a civil war; it has more properly been called by some ''the war between the states.''
From that time onward the idea of the United States being a Union between sovereign states has diminished currently into oblivion. A few years ago on FR, when I proposed secession as a possible alternative to civil war, one poster labeled that treason, which indicates just how much our understanding of our founding contract is misunderstood.