Well the threshold for inclusion is verifiability but we can not 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