Read this..... https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/when-the-united-states-became-a-corporation/

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/3002 (15)“United States” means— (A)a Federal corporation; (B)an agency, department, commission, board, or other entity of the United States; or (C)an instrumentality of the United States.

nice

Did anyone else notice though, that at the end Trump said, “...and God bless the United States OF America”? Not FOR America? Usually he just says “...and God bless America”. Thoughts?

Frankly I'm not sure I buy this distinction.

When the Constitution was ratified, power was derived from the People, not the states, the people, not the states were sovereign and formed a UNION which meant the highest sovereign authority in the land. No doubt there remains a powerful separation between federal and state, federalism, but the government created by the Constitution is supreme and sovereign in the same way the federal Constitution trumps all state constitutions. Then, there is the supremacy clause of the 10th amendment which effectively reiterates this structure.

Our nation is not and was never a confederation of states, it was a union of united states. And the powerful and important feature of federalism does not nullify the supreme sovereignty of the federal constitution which authorizes the federal government.

In fact the Constitution was devised to establish a strong central and supreme gov over and above the state governments because the Articles of Confederation, which formed a confederation of sovereign states, had failed.