Question

4. "A day after appointing a committee to write the Declaration of Independence, the Second

Continental Congress named another committee to write the Articles of Confederation, the
first constitution for the new united states of America."
Based on the excerpt from the text above, infer why the author chose not to capitalize "united
states'?

Answer 1

This is because we were declaring our independence as 13 individual sovereign states, not as a monolithic new country.

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