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| | state - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about state (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Although most states are members of the United Nations, this is not a completely reliable criterion: some are not members by choice, like Switzerland; some have been deliberately excluded, like Taiwan; and some are members but do not enjoy complete national sovereignty. |
 | | Thus the so-called states of the USA, which are to some degree subject to the will of the federal government, are not states in international terms, nor are colonial or similar possessions, which, too, are subject to an overriding authority. |
 | | The state is "a community of well-being in families and aggregations of families for the sake of a perfect and self-sufficing life. |
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