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 ::::Well, the threshold for inclusion is verifiability, but we cannot give undue weight to a dictionary that contradicts the very book (which only mentions two acts of union - supporting my apparent ""perspective"") you yourself have provided (written, at a glance, by a poetry expert?  who uses the Ulster Banner for Northern Ireland on the cover of his book). Looking through just some of the books I have (I can't fit them all on one shelf at the moment), I see the UK described as a constitutional monarchy, a unitary state, a sovereign state, a parliamentary democracy, as composed of four countries, but never as a political union or a union of four countries. It is, therefore, ""plain wrong"" to promote this mistake against a greater, and smarter body of work.  |   "