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
the name United Kingdom is made by Acts, political description, and interpretation; it is imaginary, it does not exist; UK is not necessarily an abbreviation for United Kingdom; it is an initialism, and the style of an unlimited company formed in England and Wales; it is also imaginary and does not exist;
