by: david-james

UK

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, an invention, 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

on the UK Government's GOV.UK website, in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) geographical names index, it is written that the United Kingdom is listed among sovereign countries, and that sovereign means an independent state recognised under international law; in the OED, state, n. 29.a, it is written that 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;

FCDO country names list showing GB, United Kingdom, and the official name The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;
FCDO country names list, GB, United Kingdom;
Oxford English Dictionary excerpt for country, noun, sense 3, describing the territory or land of a nation and historically distinct regions such as England, Scotland, and Ireland in the United Kingdom;
The Oxford English Dictionary, volume II: C, first published 1893; corrected re-issue 1933, country, n., sense 3, p. 1078;

body politic and fiction

on the UK Government's GOV.UK website, in the FCDO geographical names index, it is written that sovereign means an independent state recognised under international law; in the OED, state, n. 29.a, it is written that State is 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;

FCDO excerpt stating that sovereign means independent states recognised under international law;
FCDO geographical names index, meaning of sovereign;
Oxford English Dictionary 1933 volume 10 excerpt for state, noun, sense 29;
Oxford English Dictionary, 1933, volume X, p. 852, state, n. 29;

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;

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