As mentioned, we were once a nation of states and cities that working together made a composite national economy.
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In its place, the treaty created a Europe of nation-states, which survived for the next three centuries.
That will remain true so long as we stay a confederation of nation states and not the European superstate some would seek to create.
But the government's chief negotiator on the constitution, Peter Hain, said the new framework stipulated that the EU would stay a partnership of nation states.
President Barroso is calling for "a federation of nation states".
The growth of the United States as a nation of innkeepers has been a phenomenon of the past 50 years.
The issue of Soviet-American relations is in essence a test of the overall worth of the United States as a nation among nations.
President Obama today met with Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the Amir of Qatar, a nation the United States works with on a range of issues, including security, military cooperation, commerce and trade.
In a country that describes itself as a nation of immigrants, many states once let non-citizens vote, but those policies changed by the 1930s.
But the two rejectionist votes are forcing Europe to confront the dilemma of what it wants to be: a tightly integrated super-state in waiting or a looser grouping of nation-states.
Mr. President, your leadership of this great nation of the United States coincides with a time of profound changes taking place in the world at large.
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There is nothing that says, because the Constitution allows us to govern ourselves, if we as a nation were overwhelmingly opposed to a decision of, say, the United States Supreme Court, we as a nation have a method to fix that.
In both cases of new engines or biorefineries, there will be huge new engineering required on a scale that can only be guessed at if algae really can be exploited to make a nation the size of the United States independent of cheap imported crude oil.
There is no question that the free flow of capital into and out of the United States is a crucial pillar of this nation's global competitiveness and leadership.
There's no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.
Once again, however, logic must defer, in this case, to the vanity and power-hunger of national politicians and, it must be said, to the enduring loyalties of Europeans to their nation-states, despite a striking increase in their affirmations of a local or tribal identity.
The United States is a nation of laws and so we must abide by these rulings.
He recognised a shift in the function of nation-states, from the provision of rights to that of services, which transcend constitutional jurisdictions.
The university said a full programme of events is being planned, which in the early months of 2013 will include lectures and discussion on issues such as the role of nation states in the 21st century and the shape of a modern Scottish welfare state.
Beginning in the early 1980s the United States transformed itself from a nation of savers into a nation of debtors.
The United States of America is a nation of Christians and Jews, and Muslims and Buddhists, and Hindus and non-believers.
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In terms of mortality rate, which considers flu deaths in terms of a nation's population, Brazil ranks seventh, and the United States is 13th, the Brazilian Ministry of Health said in a news release Wednesday.
While most of the nation is preparing for a weekend full of Halloween festivities, the East Coast of the United States is scrambling to prepare for what may be one of the worst Hurricanes in a decade.
That's what makes the United States of America different as a nation.
The United States of America is a Pacific nation, and we see our future as bound to those nations and peoples to our West.
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Mr. Reagan, like Mr. Perry, had a long record running one of the nation's largest states, and he brought to the campaign the same kind of disdain for Washington's established ways.
As public scrutiny intensifies over price transparency in health care, a new report shows 72 percent of the nation, or 36 states, failing to improve information to consumers on what medical treatments and procedures actually cost.
We live in a federal nation, and, as part of the federal compact, fortunate states (right or wrong) help those in need.
Americans United called Kennedy "extreme, " and said he referred to the United States as "a Christian nation" in his introduction of the attorney general.
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