| 单词 | incorporating act |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIncorporating Act b. incorporating union, a union which combines two or more states, etc. under one government, or converts separate bodies into one corporation. (Originally said of the Union between England and Scotland in 1707.) So also Incorporating Act. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] > a union or confederacy of states confederation1621 confederacy1681 incorporating union1706 United States1784 federacy1803 trialism1908 union1909 1706 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 105 The parliament had read 5 or 6 addresses against an incorporating union with England. 1707 Vulpone 18 They had changed their Notion of an Incorporating Union into that of a Federal one. 1813 M. Cutler Let. 23 Mar. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 320 I shall send you..our Incorporating Act and Constitution. 1825 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 32 He distinguished between an incorporating and a federal union. 1871 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Jan. It is hopeless to expect an incorporating union of all the seven provinces [of Australia] at present. < as lemmas |
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