Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
Is it valid to make a persistent distinction for this phrasing between the individual legal components of the Union and their substantive territorial scope?

For example, is Cornwall "within" the Union?
Cornwall was part of Wessex before England existed, then Wessex became England, then England was united with Wales, then Scotland was united with those two, then Ireland was united with Great Britain.

Cornwall is, therefore, not a constituent part of the "United Kingdom" and to describe it as such is a classification error.