Would America have been a better place under the English flag.?
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The Britis are far from perfect, but they are quite civilize compared with the many nation-states who have achieved such dominance that they have invaded and took over other countries.\n\nOne, therefore, is tempted to say that the United Kingdom would be a first-rate country to dominate the United States.  Certainly, one can expect that England would have eased its exploitative policies toward the colonies.\n\nBut the one thing that would be missing is that the capital of the colonies would be thousands of miles away.  That is not conducive to good government.  On the other hand, we have the example of Hawaii -- one of the 50 states -- but 5,000 miles away from Washington D.C.  As time goes on, distance bceomes less of an obstacle.  Still, there are independence movements in Hawaii.
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I propose we change the version of english spoken in the US, and call it American. Being that we are a bigger and meaner country than England, we can bully them and say we speak proper english, but truth be told, English is from England.
738078
maybe if we knew what country we could comment better.
330388
If you are an American it is important, because we live here and raise our children here. If we better the country we better ourselves.
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I bet some foreiners could give you some better answers, dont ask a bunch of flag loven' Americans! If I were british Id tell you " Because you Americans are bloody brash and ugly!"
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it is everything that you said. the way that America was set up made it so that it could last through the times with only slight changes. if you look at the constitution you can see that they have only made clarifications with all of the amendments but as a whole it hasn't changed for the 200+ years that it has been in place. we also offer many basic freedoms that many countries take away from people.  when you think about it when this country was formed with the government and all there had to be someone behind all of the process some God like being behind it all trying to help it all form correctly and to be able to run smoothly.
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The importance of indepentance...like the United States? Well...if we didn't declare our indepentance we would all be British wouldn't we? We wouldn't have our freedom of speach, religion, or press. We would be completely different than the America we are today, wouldn't we?
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To seperate the U.S. from Great britain.
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He might not be the hero that people think he he was.\nProof of the vikings landing there before him might have survived.\nThe Pilgrim Fathers might have not bothered to colonise.\nThe Indigenous people may have divided the land with a tribal influence, instead of The United States.\nLord Cornwallis would have stayed at home and grown old.\nBoston Harbour would not have had a tea party.\nPlace names in America would not have been taken from Europe,ie, New York, New Jersey, LIVERPOOL, and would have all been Indian.\nImmigrants are and have been the life blood of the Americas and also the biggest perceived problem for the future, save terrorism.and if Columbus had not landed, you would be a far different person than you are today.\nGod Bless America.
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No way!\nIt's time America stood up and supported this great document.\nIf we did, there would be less government control in our lives.\n\nTry this:\nhttp://constitutionparty.com
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Great question, Alex.\n\nI think most Americana's would.  I know that I would, for sure.  But then I believe that if my country is at war, I need to stand behind the troops and my president.  It doesn't really matter if I agree or not, I still need to be supportive. \n\n\nopen4one---LMAO!
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Sounds like America would be better off without you.
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I think the answer can be really simple.  If the flag is burnt because of the country it represents (in this case, America) then it definitely wouldn't be OK to Americans.  It's the reason behind the action and what it represents.
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Well, for starters the War of 1812 would never have been fought.  England might have eventually sold us to pay off the war debt.  We might have ended up speaking French or Spanish, or something else!  So we wouldn't be speaking English and we wouldn't have a lot of the same culture.  We wouldn't have had any of our early presidents so our country might not have expanded in what they called "manifest destiny."  We could still occupy only New England and we wouldn't be the longest lasting republic in the world.  Our constitution would not have been written and the abolitionists might never had succeeded.  Rights in all parts of the world might never have evolved.  Many countries might still have monarchies today, including us!
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Not the biggest but I think he could have represented America a little better than he did. It was all about him.
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We have allowed too much evil to creep into our nation and have taken God out. I believe that there would be a huge turn around if we came together once again as a nation under God. We don't need to look very far for good men. When you know the man upstairs, you know that you're part of the best team/army ever.\n\nGod Bless America Again
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Absolutly not!! We wouldn't take the states if bush wrapped it up and  gave it to us with a bow. The states would screw up our economic triumphs and social gains. The us would only be a step in the wrong direction.