the state

(noun)

A state is a political organization with a centralized government that maintains a monopoly over the legitimate use of force within a certain territory.

Related Terms

Examples of the state in the following topics:

  • The 10th Amendment

    • The Tenth Amendment states the Constitution's principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the States or the people.
    • The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

  • Interstate Relations

    • Article Four of the United States Constitution outlines the relationship between the states, with Congress having power to admit new states.
    • In the United States, states are guaranteed military and civil defense by the federal government.
    • Four states use the official name of Commonwealth, rather than State.
    • Under Article Four of the United States Constitution, which outlines the relationship between the states, the United States Congress has the power to admit new states to the Union.
    • The provisions are judicially enforceable against the states.

  • The Powers of State Government

    • State governments in the United States are the republics formed by citizens in the jurisdiction as provided by the Constitution.
    • The Tenth Amendment states that all governmental powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people.
    • The legislative branch of the states consists of state legislatures.
    • In the majority of states, the state legislature is called the Legislature.
    • Map of the United States.

  • Article VI

    • Article Six of the United States Constitution establishes the Constitution and the laws and treaties of the United States made in accordance with it as the supreme law of the land.
    • All debts contracted and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
    • This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
    • The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

  • The 21st Amendment

    • The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920.
    • The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
    • The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
    • This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
    • Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution.

  • Article IV

    • Article Four of the United States Constitution outlines the duties states have to each other, as well as those the federal government has to the states.
    • The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.
    • A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
    • New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.
    • The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state.

  • Head of State

    • The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States.
    • The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States.
    • Even in presidential systems the head of state often formally reports to the legislature on the present national status, e.g. the State of the Union address in the United States of America.
    • During a state visit by a foreign head of state, the president typically hosts a State Arrival Ceremony held on the South Lawn, a custom begun by John F.
    • This is followed by a state dinner given by the president which is held in the State Dining Room later in the evening.

  • The 11th Amendment

    • The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution deals with each state's sovereign immunity.
    • The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
    • From the 1860s until the 1930s, the court sat in the Old Senate Chamber of the U.S.
    • State the prohibition granted and protection afforded by the 11th Amendment

  • The 19th Amendment

    • The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.
    • The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
    • The 19th Amendment recognized the right of American women to vote.

  • Red States vs. Blue States

    • The terms "red state" (Republican-voting) and "blue state" (Democratic-voting) were standardized during the 2000 US presidential election.
    • During the 2000 US presidential election, the term "red states" was coined to mean those states whose residents primarily vote for the Republican Party and "blue states" as those states whose residents primarily vote for the Democratic Party .
    • The 2000 presidential election proved significant in standardizing red and blue states with the Republican and Democratic Parties, respectively, because of the confusion surrounding the results of the election.
    • Despite the nearly nationwide acceptance of Republican red states and Democratic blue states, the paradigm has come under criticism.
    • Another criticism of the red state-blue state paradigm is that it has not been entirely predictive of how states will vote.