I don't think so, but still thank you Etherian, I'll quote your article.
One more time... And I can keep saying it until the world ends.
The form of government does not define what an empire is.
Allow me to quote Etherian's article to have a defined definition rather than an opinion:
"Tom Nairn and Paul James define empires as polities that "extend relations of power across territorial spaces over which they have no prior or given legal sovereignty, and where, in one or more of the domains of economics, politics, and culture, they gain some measure of extensive hegemony over those spaces for the purpose of extracting or accruing value".[7] Rein Taagepera has defined an empire as "any relatively large sovereign political entity whose components are not sovereign".
IT NEVER SAYS IS MUST BE RULED BY A MONARCHY.
So, yes, the US is an Empire cause it fulfills all the requirements previously mentioned by the linguistic experts. Most of the US own territory was not originally their own, it was stolen from either Mexico or the native tribes, or bough, or annexed.
I would say the US' founding fathers had a copy of your dictionary, cause I am aware they didn't want the US to be an Empire, however, times have changed since 1776, and the definition of Empire has changed.
The US reminds me a lot to Rome. It starts under noble ideals, grows so much that becomes the scary Imperial superpower, of course in the case of Rome, it was more obvious cause it turned into a monarchy.
And if you Summon the Ancient Greeks, I can simply reply that nothing is absolute and that there are always exceptions.
And finally, yes. These modern empires like the US are ruled not by a single person, or like a committee as you think (hell, nothing in the world is as simple as you try to see it). The power resides in the institutions that form the government, not in the men that compose it. You might remember that the US policy has been basically the same since 1945, although the multiple administrations in the power.
The Emperor you seek is the Government, not the Governor.
That's it. That's all.
Blazing mode deactivated.
Horus Lupercal, make your move.
One more time... And I can keep saying it until the world ends.
The form of government does not define what an empire is.
Allow me to quote Etherian's article to have a defined definition rather than an opinion:
"Tom Nairn and Paul James define empires as polities that "extend relations of power across territorial spaces over which they have no prior or given legal sovereignty, and where, in one or more of the domains of economics, politics, and culture, they gain some measure of extensive hegemony over those spaces for the purpose of extracting or accruing value".[7] Rein Taagepera has defined an empire as "any relatively large sovereign political entity whose components are not sovereign".
IT NEVER SAYS IS MUST BE RULED BY A MONARCHY.
So, yes, the US is an Empire cause it fulfills all the requirements previously mentioned by the linguistic experts. Most of the US own territory was not originally their own, it was stolen from either Mexico or the native tribes, or bough, or annexed.
I would say the US' founding fathers had a copy of your dictionary, cause I am aware they didn't want the US to be an Empire, however, times have changed since 1776, and the definition of Empire has changed.
The US reminds me a lot to Rome. It starts under noble ideals, grows so much that becomes the scary Imperial superpower, of course in the case of Rome, it was more obvious cause it turned into a monarchy.
And if you Summon the Ancient Greeks, I can simply reply that nothing is absolute and that there are always exceptions.
And finally, yes. These modern empires like the US are ruled not by a single person, or like a committee as you think (hell, nothing in the world is as simple as you try to see it). The power resides in the institutions that form the government, not in the men that compose it. You might remember that the US policy has been basically the same since 1945, although the multiple administrations in the power.
The Emperor you seek is the Government, not the Governor.
That's it. That's all.
Blazing mode deactivated.
Horus Lupercal, make your move.
![[TEA]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 "Tea [TEA]")
