Understanding the #UnitedStatesofAmerica A Revival. Instead of beginning with "legal" documents of the individual states, I think I'd like to start with the National Documents, which are necessary for understanding the individual state documents. The object is to show that the United States of America was suppose to be 50 individual countries that share some camaraderie between them (like sovereign American's can travel freely from state to state). In this revival I will be sharing these documents in Blog Form. The Document I'd like to start with is called the "Doctrine of Discovery", a Papal Bull written in 1493, 7-months after Christopher Columbus discovered the America's (where people already lived).