A Country with No Name

I'm currently reading A Country with No Name by de Grazia. It's an historical fiction book with an interesting take on things.

The legal early history of this country and the constitution are framed by a sexy English tutor teaching a college bound son of an ambassador. The framing with these two is interesting as we see the sparks fly, and the author by setting the tutor up as English makes it clear that he's presenting the history of this country in a different manner.

I haven't finished the book- but one of the more interesting things is the NAME of the country I'm in. It's not so much a name as a description- United States of [] America.
I put the brackets between of and America as when we started the Revolution it was the United States of British America... Now it could be '... of NORTH America' but that still ends up as a descriptor, not a real name like Canada OR Columbia( which many of the revolutionaries thought of naming this country AFTER the war.)

Our name comes about because of the fight between Federalists( like Washington and Hamilton) and Anti Federalists( like Jefferson). The Federalists wanted a strong CENTRAL government (quasi democrats) and the Antis wanted strong STATE rights( like current day republicans).
So the Federalists ended up NOT naming a central government, because to name it would tip their hand and anti Federalists didn't want to name it because they wanted the STATES( such as Virginia) to remain powerful- States rights, States named in the country- united STATES.

I might mention some other fun facts from the book- later next week or as I read more. I do however want to mention two things about the post of the president and his OATH of office.
First, I always assumed that we would never have an atheist president because most of the country is Christian( how much I did not know til this past election), and you want a big base to begin with. I did not realize however that in his oath of OFFICE, the president SWEARS to god. You can't swear to god without believing in same.
Second, he swears to uphold the constitution. That's the president's job. To sign bills into laws and defend the constitution. That's it. No more, no less. Not declare war, NOT tell congress what they SHOULD make law, NOT set policy- just uphold the constitution to the best of his ability.