Declaration of Independence:

 

THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

1 Stat. 1, July 4, 1776 A.D.

http://supremelaw.org/stat/1/1stat1.gif

 

 

Articles of Confederation:

 

Whereas the Delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/articles-of-confederation

 

Article I. The Stile of this confederacy shall be, “The United States of America.”

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/articles-of-confederation

 

 

Federalist No. 1, by Alexander Hamilton:

 

AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government,

you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America.

https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-1-10

 

 

U.S. Constitution:

 

do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America

http://supremelaw.org/ref/whuscons/whuscons.htm

 

The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America
http://supremelaw.org/ref/whuscons/whuscons.htm#2:1 

 

the Independence of the United States of America

http://supremelaw.org/ref/whuscons/whuscons.htm#7:2

 

 

28 U.S.C. 1746(1):

 

I declare (or certify, verify, or state) under penalty of perjury

under the laws of the United States of America

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1746

http://supremelaw.org/sls/31answers.htm#Q16

 

 

Bouvier’s Law Dictionary (1856):

 

UNION.  By this word is understood the United States of America;

as, all good citizens will support the Union.

 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  The name of this country.

http://supremelaw.org/ref/dict/bldu1.htm#union