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【America is a religious nation】

『Column, the Christianity and the extremism on the Islam』

The way of the extremism on the Islam is the way of calling from the Christianity, so no one call themselves like that in the Islam themselves.

The people who are called the extremism on the Islam are the Islam or the revivalism on the Islam from the side of the Christianity.

The modern society in the Islam has degraded itself because of the influence by the society in the Western world. There are people who think like that, and they’ve insisted on going back to the situation in which they should be.

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【America is a religious nation】

『Column, the Christianity and the extremism on the Islam』

The things written in the Bible are absolutely the truth word for word, the extremism on the Christianity think like that, and likewise, Koran which is the holy book for the Islam, so all the described things are the truth word for word, so it’s axiomatic truth for the Islam.

But if calling the way of thinking the extremism, it means that the Islam are the extremism without exception, so we should be careful.

But both of the extremis on the Islam and the Christianity have had a strong idea of …

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The extremism on the both of the religion have had the tendency of dividing everything two of things which are the friends and enemies, so they resemble with regard to it.

《The conservatives on the Christianity have had carried great weight》

Though the Americans have believed in the Christianity under the residential religion or the invisible national religion, they hardly showed their religious idea blatantly before, but the movement of forcing others to have its religious idea becomes stronger lately, the religious conservatives gain power.

Lots of the..

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《The conservative on the Christianity have carried great power》

Lots of the Christians who are called evangelicals live at the conservative area in the south of America. They give importance to the evangel in the New Testament and think all the things written in the evangel are truth word for word. The way of thinking is called the extremism on the Christianity. As to the sect, there are some of denominations like the Baptist in the Protestant, or Amethyst.

All of them think telling the gospel from the God as many people as possible is their responsibility.

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《The conservative on the Christianity have carried great weight》

So they have put effort into preaching the gospel, and missionaries on TV were born from them, having learned to tell their religious belief to the whole America through the TV.

Sunday service is broadcast with some channels on the Cable television in America every Sunday, and the missionaries on TV preach to the whole America through TV. They criticized the present situation in America filled with sex and violence severely, calling out to the Americans to live rightly as Christianity being…

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【America is a religious nation】

《The conservative on the Christianity have carried great weight》

…calling out the Americans to live rightly as the Christianity being based on the evangel, and it grabbed the heart of the people who develop an irrational aversion on the disorderly life in the city.

There was the question in the public opinion in 1981 like the next.

Have you ever seen the worship on the TV in this week? No less than 32% of the people watched it.

As the preacher on TV has had the great influence over the society in America, the conservative on the religion gains power.

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It was triggered by the moral majority formed by Jerry Falwell, having no less than three million and half of believers, and trying to make the right Christianity reflect on the politics. It is said it was great power in the Presidential election in America in 1980, and made a contribution to Reagan who was elected the President.

It was forty four years ago. Roughly speaking, it’s a half century ago. This book was written in 2005, and the author wrote additionally then. When Reagan was elected, it was twenty five years before then. It’s long time ago.

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I’m afraid it’s old as information.

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《The Republican Party began to enter the society mainstream》

One of the missionaries on TV thought of running for the Presidential election in America. It’s Pat Robertson who was popular among highly the Americans as the preacher on TV. He ran for the Presidential primary on the Republican Party in 1988, but wasn’t appointed as the candidate. Instead, he formed the Christian Coalition, making use of the organization which he formed during the election campaign.

He adopted the policy that his supporters joined in the…

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【America is a religious nation】

《The Republican Party has began to enter the society mainstream》

He adopted the policy that his supporters joined in the Republican Party and made sure their influence and magnifying it. This policy was so successful that without ignoring the religious conservative which was represented by the Christian Coalition, the Republican Party couldn’t carry out its politics.

The people who were concerned the Christian Coalition made up for no less than 42% in the Republican National Convention in 1992, and the religious conservative became an assistance for the…

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《The Republican Party has began to enter the society mainstream》

…and the religious conservative made the strong organization call out and became the assistance to the President Bush in the Presidential election again November in 2004.

Then the Presidential election was head to head race, Bush vs Kelly, and John Kelly who was the Presidential candidate from the Democratic Party argued about the opposition the war against Iraq, but the international problem didn’t become the point at issue in the southern area in America, for there are lots of the religious…

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…for there are lots of the religious conservatives there, so calling out for support from the point of view Bush was opposed to the abortion and to the same sex marriage and it succeeded.

《Though saying, defending the life on the people, they killed the people》

It’s the opposition to the abortion,the same sex marriage and homosexuality which the religious conservative has put more effort at present as well.

It is described that the God ordered the people, be fruitful and multiply, in the Genesis, so they’ve thought that the people have the abortion is…

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《Though saying to defend the life of the people, they killed actually》

…so they thought that the people have the abortion is against the teaching of the God. In addition, the God showed the ten commanders to the people in the Old Testament, thou shalt not kill. It means you must not kill.

Abortion means killing a fetus, so they’ve insisted that the abortion is against the teaching of the God.

As to the abortion, the Federal Supreme Court allowed the right which women have an abortion when being pregnant in 1973, but the religious conservative was opposed…

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《Though saying to defend the life on the people, they killed actually》

The Federal Supreme Court allowed the right of abortion with the point of view of the maternal protection, but the religious conservative was opposed against it fiercely, and learned to develop the active movement establishing the law of prohibiting the abortion, and the situation took on a violent definition.

The doctor who had the surgery on abortion was killed by the people who were opposed to the abortion in Florida March in 1933. After that other doctors who had the surgery of a….

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《Though saying to protect the life on the people, they killed actually》

After that other doctor who had the surgery of abortion or the member of the staff in the clinic were killed, the kind of case broke out one after another.

The clinic which had the surgery of abortion was exploded in Alabama January in 1998, and one person was dead, and the other was injured heavily. The ones who were killed by the people who were against the abortion reached nine people.

Though insisting on the teaching that thou shalt not kill they killed the people actually.

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The people who are against the abortion because they insist that they should take good care of the life are called pro-life, and other ones who claimed that the abortion should leave to the choice of mothers are called pro choice, and the opposition between them continues.

《The Bush government was opposed to the plan of reducing population by the UN》

The Bush government supported by the religious conservative stopped dominating the money of thirty four million dollars on the United Nations Fund of Population Activities in 2002.

It’s the organization which…

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【America is a religious nation】

《The Bush government was opposed to the plan of reducing population by UN》

The organization supports the plan on family so as to improve the situation in which developing countries were worried about the increase on the population drastically, and it has been administered by the fund contributed from each nation in the world.

Though at the time of the Clinton government the fund was contributed, the Bush government refused to dominate thirty four million dollar of fund which was approved by the National Assembly.

The reason of refusing to contribute was…

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【America is a religious nation】

《The Bush government was opposed to the plan of reducing population by UN》

The reason of refusing to dominate was related to the plan of forcible abortion by China, but the State Department in America investigated, and it turned out it wasn’t done actually in China, but the Bush government tried not to dominate.

The United Nations Fund for Activities teaches the people in developing countries how to abort, and offers contraceptive devices to its nation. It’s the way of thinking whether or not having a baby is done of the choice by a mother or the couple alone

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The Bush government was opposed because approving the right means allowing the abortion. UNFPA was at a loss because it would get in the way when making progress on the family plan in developing countries.

The way of thinking they shouldn’t admit the abortion is shown there as well.

《America has been shaken with the same sex marriage》

Whether or not permitting the same sex marriage becomes the problem like the one on the abortion in America at present.

The Supreme Court in Massachusetts sentenced like the next November in 2003. Allowing the marriage…

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【America is a religious nation】

《America has been shaken with the same sex marriage》

Allowing the marriage between a man and a woman alone is against the regulation of being equal between the man and woman in the constitution of the state.

Seven couples of the same sex appealed the authority in the state they weren’t allowed their marriage, but it’s against the constitution in the state, and it was permitted.

America has been shaken with the judgement greatly, and the President Bush criticized the sentence because the marriage between different genders is sacred.

Whether or not allowing …

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【America is a religious nation】

《America has been shaken with the same sex marriage》

Whether or not allowing the same sex marriage is difference between the next things like the two of them. Whether finding the religious value in the marriage, or focusing on the equation under the law.

As to the couples who have already been married, when either of them was dead, the lawful right on supplying for the bereaved family pension, or when got divorced, consolation money, distribution of property have been guaranteed more than unmarried couples.

So even if being the same sex coupled, if hope to…

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【America is a religious nation】

《America has been shaken with the same sex marriage》

...if hoping to get marry, guaranteeing the lawful right as same as the couple of the man and woman. It's the position of the people who allow the same sex marriage.

On the other hand, the religious conservative finds the religious meaning on the marriage and thinks the marriage is connection between the man and woman, so is opposed to the same sex marriage strongly.

If the state tries to admit the same sex marriage originally, it's all right as long as the constitution on the United States forbids it.

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The religious conservative has thought like that, and started the movement on asking for constitutional revision.

The town where the people indulged themselves in the homosexuality called Gomorah and the heaven perished it. It is described in the Old Testament like that, and it's the ground of denying the homosexuality for the religious conservative.

Whenever various social problem breaks out in America, approval or disapproval arises from the religious point of view.

《There have been the people who don't allow the theory of evolution》

There has been the...

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【America is a religious nation】

《There have been the people who don't allow the theory of evolution》

There have been the argument over the theory of evolution as the episode symbolizing the extremism on the Christianity. A teacher in high school at Dayton in the state of Tennessee was arrested and was brought to the court because he taught the theory of evolution in 1925.

The assembly in Tennessee established the law forbidding to teach the theory of evolution in public school March in the same year. In the southern states in America there were lots of the extremists on the Christians then.

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【America is a religious nation】

《There have been the people who don't allow the theory of evolution》

So the same kind of law was established there one after another in no less than thirteen states in total.

The God has created the people like the description in the Bible, and except for it, none of teaching isn't forbidden. It's the point on the law.

The court was called the one of a monkey, for teaching the absurd theory that people evolved from the money is outrageous. There were some people who said like that.

It is well known in Japan there was the court like that, but what about...

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【America is a religious nation】

《There have been some people who don’t allow the theory of evolution》

….but what about its result? The result on the court has never been known so much unexpectedly. How about the judgement?

The teacher who taught the theory of evolution was guilty, the fine of a hundred dollar was imposed on him.

To tell the truth, the court was set about by the side of the teacher. The law of forbidding the theory of evolution was formed, and some people were angry with it, thinking of wanting to appeal the law in the state prohibiting to teach the theory of evolution was…

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《There have been some people who don’t admit the theory of evolution》

…thinking of wanting to appeal the law in the state prohibiting to teach the theory of evolution was absurd, and asked the teacher to use the textbook on which the theory of evolution was printed in his class.

Then the teacher who was in charge of biology happened to be absent, and the teacher who was brought to the court was substitute accepted the request and was arrested on purpose. A competent lawyer was up to the teacher in the court, and the lawyer challenged a controversy to…

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【America is a religious nation】

《There have been some people who don’t allow the theory of evolution》

…and the lawyer challenged a controversy to the prosecutor who thought the Bible was correct absolutely.

For example, it is described at the Genesis in the Old Testament it was the fourth day when the God created the sun and the moon, but before it there was the description it became evening and morning.

Without both of the sun and the moon, how did the God know it was evening and morning? Because he was the God?

Or the snake cheated Eve and made her eat the apple in the Garden of Eden…

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《There have been some people who don’t allow the theory of evolution》

After that the snake was punished and was forced to be slithered on the ground, but before it, what kind of shape was the snake? The lawyer asked like that, but the prosecutor couldn’t answer any questions, but the judge sentenced the teacher was guilty.

The judgement was discarded in the Supreme Court in the state of Tennessee in the next year, but its reason wasn’t the content on the judgement but there was the error in the procedure on the judgement.

It wasn’t judged whether teaching…

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【America is a religious nation】

《There have been some people who don’t allow the theory of evolution》

It wasn’t judged whether teaching the theory of evolution was illegal or not.

The situation on the court was reported in the mass scale in America then, and lots of the Americans knew how the controversy was done, but after the trial, the description on the theory of evolution disappeared from the textbook on the biology which the teacher used in his class in high school. Moreover other textbooks learned not to deal with the theory of evolution. Evolutionists were defeated in the field of…

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【America is a religious nation】

《There have been some people who don’t allow the theory of evolution》

Evolutionists were defeated in the field of education as well.

The trial was made into a movie, and the movie was open to the public in 1961, its title is the rebellion against the Bible, but the actual situation was dramatized so much that the truth wasn’t always reproduced again exactly.

It was in 1967 when the assembly of the state of Tennessee abolished the law prohibiting the theory of evolution, but it didn’t come to an end then, for the assembly in Tennessee formed a new law in 1973

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【America is a religious nation】

《There have been some people who don’t allow the theory of evolution》

The law was teachers must teach students the theory of the evolution wasn’t a scientific truth but was just a theory, and when teaching the theory of the evolution, they must teach the Genesis in the Old Testament at the same time.

But the law was against the constitution in the trial of the state in 1975, and became invalid then.

But the movement on the extremism of the Christianity continues still more, advocating creative science from the position the description on the Bible was truth

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【America is a religious nation】

《There have been some people who don’t allow the theory of evolution》

The law was formed when teaching the theory of evolution, they must teach the creative science together in the state of Louisiana and Arkansas in 1961. As they must deal with both of them equally, so it was called the law equalizing the time of the class.

But the Federal Supreme Court showed the judgement finally the theory of evolution is science, but the creative science is religious philosophy, so teaching the creative science in public school was against the law in 1987.

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《There are some people who don’t allow the theory of evolution》

Teaching the creative science is forbidden in public school is finally. If trying to teach the common knowledge on science at school, they encounter stiff resistance severely, and it has taken such the long time for teaching the theory of evolution alone.

Moreover, even if with the endorsement of being able to teach the theory of evolution from the court, it doesn’t go well actually at school, for it has been expected from violent protest from parents of the students who are strict extremists…

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…there seem to be lots of teacher who avoid the theory of evolution in the class of biology actually at present.

『Column, the Pope has allowed the theory of evolution』

The Catholic has already allowed the theory of evolution. Peony Ⅱ who was then the Pope said the Christianity doesn’t contradict with the theory of evolution in 1950, saying creating the soul on the people is indispensable of the intervention by the God.

The Pope John Paul Ⅱ has allowed the theory of evolution isn’t the hypothesis but the theory in 1996.

『Column、 the earth was born six …』

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『Column, the earth was born six thousand years ago?』

The extremisms have calculated when the earth was born, as clue the description on the Genesis.

It was 4000 B.C. when the earth was born, according to the theory in the beginning. To my surprise, even the date and the time was said clearly. After that, the date is different a little, according to debaters, but the conclusion is it’s just thousands of years passed after the earth was born.

The fossil dug up from the earth is the one on animals which were dead in the Noah’s Flood, according to the theory.

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《The country which is under the God》

If trying to teach the theory of evolution at school, it caused the problem like that in America, for the way of thinking Christianity takes root every scene in their life of America, believing in the God is natural, and lots of the Americans have the unwavering belief in common that America is under the God .

Without knowing it, America is hard to understand for us the Japanese who have little idea and knowledge on religion.

But Islam has increased sharply recently in America. It is said there are five million Islams in…

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【America is a religious nation】

《America is a country which is under the God》

It is said some five million Islams in America and some tension between the Christians and Islams nowadays. There are two types of the Islam in America.

The ones are immigrating from overseas, hating the oppression in the Middle East and seeking for the nation of liberty have increased. Even if settling down in America, without losing the religious faith on the Islam, they maintain their life as the Islam there.

The other is the black people who continued to be discriminated in America convert to Islam.

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【America is a religious nation】

《America is a country under the God》

Some million of man of the black people gathered at Washington from the whole America and held a large gathering October in 1995, though the police announce it was four hundred thousand. Louis Farrakhan who was the leader of Nation of Islam, which is the organization on Islam by the black people. held it. He is extremist on Islam insisting on anti Jew, anti white people.

The Americans were astounded that the organization had so big ability gathering the black people like that. Women of black people were forbidden from the…

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【America is a religious nation】

《America is a country under the God》

Women of the black people were forbidden to join in the gathering from the thought of the male dominated.

Farrakhan insisted the white dominated has made America something which doesn’t feel good and called out the improvement on the status of the black people.

The movement on the improvement of the status of the black people links with the Islam then. It was made into a movie, and its title was get on the bus, and was open in the public in 1998.

Thus converting to the Islam makes progress, for the black people who…

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【America is a religious nation】

《America is a country under the God》

…for the black people who began to be attracted from the Islam which made much of being equal under the God, and this world is created by the only God for the Islam, so the Christians and the Islams are the same with regard to the point, there is no difference that America is made up with the people who believe in the God, so the President in America continues to call out, we hope the God protects America in the future.

『Summary』

Separation of church and state is stipulated in the Constitution in America, but it means…

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【America is a religious nation】

…but it means not stipulating the national religion, but assuming that lots of the nations are the Christians, so to speak the Christianity without Christ. The large amount of the people believed the existence of the God and the conservatives on the religion have influence over the whole America.

【America is allied powers.】

《The President is the symbol on the unity of the people》

Have you ever seen the President made a speech in the Congress of America on the news of TV?

When the President entered the Congress, all the members of the Congress stand up…

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【America is allied powers】

《The President is the symbol of the unity of the people》

…meeting the President by applauding. In the middle of the time when the President made a speech, none of the member on the Congress jeers, applause erupts sometimes in the speech, and the President received the standing ovation.

The members of the political party which belong to different from the one to which the President belonged cheers and applause enthusiastically. It’s different from the Prime Minister who made a speech in the National Assembly in Japan. Why?

As the President in America is the head…

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【America is allied powers】

《The President is the symbol of the unity of the people》

As the President in America is the head of state, the chief executive in the administration, at the same time, it’s the symbol in the unity of the people in America, being the status of the combination of the Emperor and the Prime Minister in Japan.

Whether or not the Emperor in Japan is the head of state is debatable, but it’s treated as the head of state from overseas, but it’s the symbol and it’s stipulated in the constitution in Japan.

When the National Assembly is open, the Emperor says for the….

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【America is the allied powers】

《The President is the symbol of the unity of the people》

…the Emperor says for the start on the National Assembly. Then none of the Diet Members heckles. It has been paid a respect to the Emperor which is the symbol on Japan regardless of the political situation.

The Prime Minister is organizing Ministers who are the top of the ministers and the government office, in short, it’s the chief executive in the administration. As the President is the existence of combined two of them, when making a speech in the Congress, no one jeers, and receiving applause from…

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【America is allied powers】

…and receiving applause from the member of opposing party. We can understand why it is.

《The President which has the federation of states stay in one nation》

Whether or not the President is Bush, Obama, though each of the people thinks it of individually, they pay their respect for the position on the President, and it has been expected the President responds with it, and behaves as if it were the father of the whole America. He has been sought for a spiritual leader for the people.

The people choose the President once every four year, in other words, it’s like …

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【America is allied powers】

《The President which makes the federation of states stay in one nation》

…in other words, it’s like they choose their king, for there has been the sense of danger without the President which is the symbol on the unity of people in America, the federal nation of America fall apart.

Actually the Civil War which divided America into two things broke out in the past.

America is made up with fifty states and the President organizes them.

『Column, the difference between the President and the Prime Minister』

Some nations have the President and the Prime Minister.

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【America is allied powers】

『Column, the difference between the President and the Prime Minister』

Which one has the stronger power? It depends on the nation.

The President is the head of state, on the other hand, the Prime Minister is the chief of executive in the administration. In the nation of both of them exist, the nation in which the President has the strong authority, and the other the Prime Minister has the strong one

For example, in Russia, France and South Korea, the President has stronger authority, and the Prime Minister carries out the responsibility as the Chief of executive…

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【America is allied powers】

『Column, the difference between the Prime Minister and the President』

…receiving the indication from the President.

On the other hand, in Germany, Austria, Israel, the President is the chief of state, but it’s just a nominal existence, so the Prime Minister has full command of the political authority.

In addition, in Holland, Belgium, or England, there is a king or queen who are the chief of state, and the Prime Minister has the political authority.

There is neither the Prime Minister nor the king and the President grasps everything in America. It’s rare.

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【America is allied powers】

《No less than fifty states are allied》

As you know, the official name on the America is the United States of America. As the state is translated into 州 in Japanese, so we tend to image it’s like a prefecture in Japan, but it’s not actually.

The colony which the colonizers made up from England was thirteen. Each of them developed separately, but they are repulsive against the tax being imposed form England which was their homeland, and thirteen colonies inaugurate the Continual Congress which was a loose allied organization in 1774, causing the independent war….

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【America is allied powers】

《No less than fifty states are allied》

…seeking for independence from England April in 1775, and the Continental Congress announced independence in the next year, but it’s in 1781 when England was defeated actually and the war was over, and the Treaty of Paris was concluded in I783, each nation in Europe including England allowed America as the independent nation for the first time.

Then America was allowed as independent nation, but it’s just allied organization by thirteen nations. When did the allied nation become the independent one in name and in fact?

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