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Sure, that's how they were more or less envisioned. But they are not, leaving us with at least two meanings for the term "state".
by ghkbrew 8y ago
Sure, that's how they were more or less envisioned. But they are not, leaving us with at least two meanings for the term "state".
- deaddodo 8y agoThe US isn't the only place to use "states". Austria, Germany, Argentina, Mexico, etc are all based around states. There's an important distinction between "states" and "provinces" that people tend to forget. Provinces are subdivisions of a larger entity, usually a unitary State, and inherit their powers from it. States, on the other hand, grant a central arbiter powers via cession; almost exclusively in the form of a federation or confederation.