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Does not mean that a political system is a god given commandment that can not change to move to a better system. And if some states did agree to join a model, i
by kshacker 7y ago
Does not mean that a political system is a god given commandment that can not change to move to a better system. And if some states did agree to join a model, it would be the 13 original colonies. I suspect (but do not know) that the other 37 were annexed.
- brighter2morrow 7y agoThe only two states that were annexed are Texas and Hawaii. Most other territory of today's states was purchased although some of it was ceded to the US, particularly much of the Southwest was ceded to the US by Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American war of the 1840s. (This doesn't include Puerto Rico and a number of unincorporated territories which were a mix of annexed and purchased.)
- kshacker 7y agoTomato, tomato: ha ha. A war is a war, the losing side gives up, the winning side gets what the losing side gave Annex: add (territory) to one's own territory by appropriation Cede: give up (power or territory)