The Story of the United States

The story of the american constitution is also the story of how it took the life of its staunchest ender, alexander hamilton. So to start with this whole question about the united states. We always say the united states, but actually that's a very modern thing. In the eighteenth and nineteenth century, if you were going to talk about the us,. You would say, these united state, these united states. That sounds so weird to our ears, doesn't it? But when did these united states? Wichwas used well into the late nineteenth century. When did that become the united states? How did you get one country out of these various countries?"