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  State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A state is an organized political community occupying a definite territory, having an organized government, and possessing internal and external sovereignty.
The word "state" in contemporary parlance often means the "Westphalian state", in reference to the Peace of Westphalia of 1648.
A number of modern commentators have claimed the decline of the Westphalian state as the principal actor of the international system, pointing to economic, cultural, political, and technological changes in the world, such as globalization and the emergence of regional and supernational groupings such as the European Union.
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 State article - State state (disambiguation) international international relations - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The definition of "state" in the meaning of political subdivisions of some countries, is related as it emphasizes the intention of a confederation where these state governments are seen as possessing some powers independently of the federal government.
In casual language, the idea of a "state" and a "country" are usually regarded as synonymous, although some speakers, notably in the United States, make efforts to use "country" or "nation" for the sovereign entities.
While libertarians argue for a small or "minimal state" which simply protects property rights and enforces individual contracts, the New Deal or new liberals argue that the state has a greater positive role to play, given the problems of market failure and perceived gross inequalities in the distribution of income and wealth.
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 Maryland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maryland is a state of the United States, one of the South Atlantic States (although often considered part of the Mid-Atlantic States and sometimes part of the Northeast).
The Chesapeake Bay nearly bisects the state, and the counties east of the Bay are known collectively as the Eastern Shore.
The state has 583,900 foreign-born residents (10.6% of the state population), of which an estimated 56,000 are illegal aliens (1% of the state population).
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 State - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In casual language, the idea of a "state" and a "country" are usually regarded as synonymous, although some speakers, notably in the United States, make efforts to only use the terms "country" or "nation" to refer to sovereign entities.
Several of these philosophies use one form or another of the social contract theory, which affirms that the role of the state is (or should be) to follow the will of the people and serve their interests, as they define them.
While libertarians argue for a small or "minimal" state, which simply protects property rights and enforces individual contracts, the New Deal or social liberals argue that the state has a greater positive role to play, given the problems of market failure and gross inequalities in the distribution of income and wealth inside a capitalist system.
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 Maryland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Maryland is a state of the United States, one of the South Atlantic States (although often considered part of the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic States).
Despite popular support for the cause of the Confederate States of America, Maryland did not secede during the United States Civil War, in part due to precautions taken by the government in Washington, D.C. Because of this it was not included under the Emancipation Proclamation.
As of 2003, the state's population was 5,508,909.
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 Encyclopedia: Free State Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Free State Project (FSP) is a plan to have 20,000 or more "liberty-oriented" people move to a single state of the United States, with the intent of influencing local political policy.
The chosen state of the group is New Hampshire, known for its "Live Free or Die" motto and lack of a state income tax.
These states were chosen because of their low populations (under 1.5 million), relatively pro-libertarian native cultures, lack of dependence on federal funds, and decent job markets.
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 State (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Look up state in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see Copyrights for details).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/States   (210 words)

  
 Ohio - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The United States created the Northwest Territory in 1787 under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, also known as the Freedom Ordinance because for the first time slavery would be prohibited from an entire American region.
The states of the Midwest would be known as free states, in contradistinction to those states south of the Ohio River known as slave states, and later, as Northeastern states abolished slavery in the coming two generations, the free states would be known as Northern States.
This glaciated region in the northwest and central state is bordered to the east and southeast first by a belt known as the glaciated Allegheny Plateau, and then by another belt known as the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau.
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 Free State (German)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Free State (German: Freistaat) was part of the official name of most German states during the inter-war period.
Free State is a synonym for Republic, and was introduced to emphasize the transition of Imperial Germany to the Weimar Republic after the defeat in World War I, and the German Revolution which deposed all German monarchs: Similar to how a Free City (German: Freistadt), like e.g.
the Imperial Free Cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck, were not ruled by a hereditary monarch but by an elected council of burghers, all the Free States were no longer ruled by a noble or royal Head of State but by elected representatives of the citizens.
www.ceca.de /encyclopedia/f/fr/free_state__german_.html   (137 words)

  
 Ohio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the northeastern corner of the United States.
Ohio's southern border is defined by the Ohio River (with the border being at the 1793 low-water mark on the north side of the river), and much of the northern border is defined by Lake Erie.
Grand Lake St. Mary's in the west central part of the state was constructed as a supply of water for canals in the canal-building era of 1820-1850.
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 Bond (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
State of human bondage such as in slavery or as in a serf under feudalism
Bond is adhesion or transfer of force between concrete and rebar in reinforced concrete.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 Encyclopedia: Congo Free State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Congo Free State was a kingdom privately and controversially owned by King Leopold II of Belgium that included the entire area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Under Leopold II's administration, the Congo Free State was subject to a terror regime, including atrocities such as mass killings and maimings which were used to subjugate the indigenous tribes of the Congo region and to procure slave labour.
Next, the Free State was divided into two economic zones: the Free Trade Zone was open to entrepreneurs of any European nation, who were allowed to buy 10- and 15-year monopoly leases on anything of value: ivory from a particular district, or the rubber concession, for example.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Congo-Free-State   (5304 words)

  
 Louisiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The state is bordered to the west by the state of Texas, to the north by Arkansas, to the east by the state of Mississippi, and to the south by the Gulf of Mexico.
In 1803 the United States purchased the French province of Louisiana (see Louisiana Purchase) and divided it into two territories: the Orleans Territory (which became the state of Louisiana in 1812) and the District of Louisiana (which consisted of all the land not included in Orleans Territory).
The underlying strata of the state are of Cretaceous age and are covered by alluvial deposits of Tertiary and post-Tertiary origin.
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 Dominion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A Dominion is a wholly self-governing or virtually self-governing state of the British Empire or British Commonwealth, particularly one which reached that stage of constitutional development in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Irish Free State, led by W.T. Cosgrave was the first Dominion to appoint a non-British, non-aristocratic Governor-General, when Timothy Michael Healy took the position in 1922.
The Dominions Office was given a separate secretary of state in June 1930, though this was entirely for domestic political reasons given the need to relieve the burden on one ill minister whilst moving another away from unemployment policy.
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 Read about State at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research State and learn about State here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Recognition of the state's claim to independence by other states, enabling it to enter into international agreements, is often important to the establishment of its sovereignty, although some theories do not make this a requirement.
metonymy, the word state became used to refer to both the head of state and the power entity he represented (though the former meaning has fallen out of use).
nation, the state is a centralized organization of the whole country.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/State   (1676 words)

  
 Maryland Information - TextSheet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
US-MD Maryland (MD) is a state in the east of the United States.
As in all fifty states, the head of the executive branch of government is a Governor.
As of 2000, the state's population was 5,296,486.
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 Stuttgart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Stuttgart, a city located in southern Germany, is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg with a population of approximately 600,000 as of June 2004.
Stuttgart is also the seat of a protestant bishop (Protestant State Church of Württemberg) and one of the two co-seats of the bishop of the catholic diocese Rottenburg-Stuttgart.
They merged parts of the former German States of Baden and Württemberg and later on the new, democratic state Baden-Württemberg (3rd largest German state) with Stuttgart as its capital was created by a referendum.
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 Executive Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
At the federal level, Canada does not have an Executive Council but the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, modelled on the Privy Council of the United Kingdom with the Canadian Cabinet technically being a committee of the Privy Council.
A number of US states also have Executive Councils which advise and assist the governor.
Consistent with wider Commonwealth practice, Canadian provinces have Executive Councils which are usually referred to informally as Cabinets and are headed by a provincial Premier.
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 Maryland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
US-MD Maryland is a state in the eastern mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
The legislature meets in the Maryland state house in the capital,Annapolis, in Anne Arundel County.
The state judiciary is headed by the Maryland Court of Appeals, the state's supreme court.
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 Free State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Orange Free State, a former province of South Africa
Free State (German), a style used by States of Germany
Free state, a 19th century term referring to a U.S. State where slavery was forbidden - in contrast to Slave state
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 Louisiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Among the states, Louisiana has a unique culture, owing to its French colonial heritage.
Louisiana is the only state whose legal system is based on Roman, Spanish, and French civil law as opposed to English common law.
State and Federal government efforts to halt or reverse this phenomenon are under way; others are being sought.
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 Bavaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
With an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12.4 million inhabitants, the Free State of Bavaria (German Bayern or Freistaat Bayern) forms the southernmost of the 16 states of Germany.
Neighbouring states within Germany are Baden-Württemberg, Hessen, Thuringia and Saxony.
More recently, state minister-president Edmund Stoiber was the CDU/CSU candidate for chancellor in the 2002 federal election, and native son Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.
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 Afrikaner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The emphasis moved from occupying from the Zulu lands east of the Drakensberg mountains to the west of them and onto the high Transvaal which was occupied by peoples devastated by the Mfecane.
The Boers established independent states in what is now South Africa: the Natalia Republic, the Transvaal Republic (the South African Republic) and the Orange Free State.
The British wish to appropriate the diamonds mines in the Boer areas led to the two Boer Wars of 1880-1881 and 1899-1902, which ended with the inclusion of the Boer areas in the British colonies.
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 Free State (German)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The term is stillused for the states of Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia.
Free State is a synonym for Republic, and was introduced to emphasizethe transition of Imperial Germany to the Weimar Republic after the defeat in World War I, and the German Revolution whichdeposed all German monarchs: Similar to how a Free City (German:Freistadt), like e.g.
the Imperial Free Cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck, were not ruled by a hereditary monarch but by an elected council of burghers, all theFree States were no longer ruled by a noble or royal Head ofState but by elected representatives of the citizens.
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 State (disambiguation) Information - TextSheet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
a term in physics in the areas of dynamical systems and chaos theory and quantum entanglement, see state (physics).
If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link.
Content from wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
'''Steady state''' has a number of meanings: *In biochemistry, steady state (biochemistry) steady state is a central term in osmosis.
*In chemistry, steady state (chemistry) steady state is a central term in chemical kinetics.
*In cosmology, steady state theory steady state is a non-standard cosmological view developed in 1949 by Fred Hoyle and others as an alternative to the Big Bang theory.
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