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  2. State (polity) - Wikipedia

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    A state should not be confused with a government; a government is an organization that has been granted the authority to act on the behalf of a state. [22] Nor should a state be confused with a society; a society refers to all organized groups, movements, and individuals who are independent of the state and seek to remain out of its influence. [22]

  3. Model State Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The National Municipal League would revise the Model State Constitution five times with the last revision - the sixth version published in 1963. It does not promote partisan ideals or a particular political ideology but rather a simplistic, more concise, and more readable outline for state fundamental law that seeks to remain flexible to deal ...

  4. Sovereign state - Wikipedia

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    State practice relating to the recognition of states typically falls somewhere between the declaratory and constitutive approaches. [35] International law does not require a state to recognise other states. [36] Recognition is often withheld when a new state is seen as illegitimate or has come about in breach of international law.

  5. State constitutions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Guarantee Clause of Article 4 of the Constitution states that "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government." These two provisions indicate states did not surrender their wide latitude to adopt a constitution, the fundamental documents of state law, when the U.S. Constitution was adopted.

  6. Policies of states in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Dynamics of State Policy Liberalism, 1936–2014, published in 2015, found that states' positions on economic issues shifted significantly towards government interventionism between 1936 and 1970 while remaining relatively constant since.

  7. Public policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Congress does not have direct authority over education, and education policy is primarily set by state and local governments. [21] Federal education policy is built around federal funding; the federal government allocates funding for schools, but they must comply with federal regulations to receive it. [22]

  8. Policy - Wikipedia

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    Policies or policy-elements can be designed and proposed by a multitude of actors or collaborating actor-networks in various ways. [18] Alternative options as well as organisations and decision-makers that would be responsible for enacting these policies – or explaining their rejection – can be identified.

  9. State governments of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Until 1964, state senators were generally elected from districts that were not necessarily equal in population. In some cases state senate districts were based partly on county lines. In the vast majority of states, the Senate districts provided proportionately greater representation to rural areas. However, in the 1964 decision Reynolds v.