What you are referring to is called a 'Nation State' in political studies, to
avoid confusion.
Both 'nation' and 'state' when used alone have multiple meanings.
FWIW
A state is regarded as an semi-autonomous, partly self-governing administrative
division in a federation. For instance, an English-speaking observer would
refer to Hesse, for instance, as a 'state' in the German federation.
States within different nations may have very different levels of autonomy. In
some, they are rather powerless, in others virtually independent. The USSR
regarded it's 'states' as independent republics and in some aspects, they were.
Ideally, State Governments become a check and balance on the Federal Government
in domestic issues at least. That's why here the Upper House is elected
proportionately by State Divisions and the Lower House popularly by Federal
Divisions.
The English division is a County (not country) and they are far less autonomous
and much smaller than a US, Australian, Indian state or Canadian Province. I
Understand that many US States are divided into rural 'Counties'. In the UK,
cities within them are independent of the County authority, for instance, so
they become a rural administration. (i.e. Leicester City Council and
Leicestershire County Council are separate bodies).
I suspect that the UK administrative structure may have overtaken my shambling
memory - I'll bet it's more complicated than that.
Andrew Fildes
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On 07/06/2014, at 9:01 PM, Philippe wrote:
> I was referring to any state on the planet - the US is just one of them, the
> lower divisions you call states and which others may call Lander (D), canton
> (CH), region (SP), country (UK), etc, are of very little interest to me - but
> I admit they are from a national's point of view :-)
>
> My take is on majestic power/supreme authority/sovereign power, not on
> politicians, however corrupt they may be allowed to become by their electors
> and voting systems, etc. ;-)
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