United Kingdom is a statutory and geopolitical expression built by Acts of Parliament; it is not a place, it is a body politic; it is imaginary, it does not exist;
premise:
political wording, and formation of the United Kingdom by statute, can only be an abstract legal construction; fiction can not mix with reality, the two can never meet;
Acts forming the name
- 1800 and 1801 - United Kingdomthe Union with Ireland Act 1800 and Irish Act of Union joined Great Britain and Ireland into one kingdom from 1 January 1801, styled the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland;
United Kingdom
FCDO records the United Kingdom in its list of sovereign countries; FCDO says sovereign means an independent state recognised under international law; OED, state, n. 29.a: the State is the body politic / political organization for civil rule and government, either abstractly or in a particular country; the United Kingdom is a body politic, and as such, is fiction;
body politic and fiction
FCDO says sovereign means an independent state recognised under international law; OED, state, n. 29.a gives State as the body politic or political organization for civil rule and government, either abstractly or in a particular country; therefore the United Kingdom is a body politic, and as such, fiction;
result
a man can not live in the United Kingdom as it was formed by an Act of Parlilament in 1801; it is imaginary, it does not exist;
sources
- Laws in Wales Act 1535
- Laws in Wales Act 1542
- Union with Scotland Act 1706
- Union with England Act 1707
- Union with Ireland Act 1800
- Act of Union (Ireland) 1800
- Government of Ireland Act 1920
- Irish Free State (Agreement) Act 1922
- Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927
- Interpretation Act 1978, Schedule 1
- UK Government, Toponymic guidelines for map and other editors, section 10 Geopolitical Terminology
- FCDO geographical names index
- The Oxford English Dictionary, volume II: C, first published 1893; corrected re-issue 1933, p. 1078, country, n., sense 3
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1933, volume X, Sole-Sz, p. 852, state, n. 29
