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Pre-modern state formation occurred in China during the and after the Warring States period (475-221 BCE). [30] State formation occurred in Japan and Korea during the period 400-800 CE. [30] The key institutional innovation of East Asian state formation was the world's first civil services. [30]
Nation-building is a long evolutionary process, and in most cases the date of a country's "formation" cannot be objectively determined; e.g., the fact that England and France were sovereign kingdoms on equal footing in the medieval period does not prejudice the fact that England is not now a sovereign state (having passed sovereignty to Great ...
A state is a political entity that regulates society and the population within a territory. [1] Government is considered to form the fundamental apparatus of contemporary states. [2] [3] A country often has a single state, with various administrative divisions.
A federated state (also state, province, region, canton, land, governorate, oblast, emirate, or country) is a territorial and constitutional community forming part of a federation. [1] A federated state does not have international sovereignty since powers are divided between the other federated states and the federal government .
Article 20 allowed associations compliant with "Article 7 of Decree of 16 August 1901" to form unions. [25] Article 21 (modified in 2015) required inventory reporting and auditing of associations and unions. [25] Article 22 (modified in 2015) restricted reserve funds to the "costs and maintenance of worship". [25]
Rechtsstaat, the legal state (constitutional state, state subordinated to law) in the philosophy of law and as a principle of many national constitutions; United States Department of State, a division of the executive branch of the United States federal government, dealing with foreign affairs; sometimes referred to as "State", for short, in American political jargon.
The sixth state reform in the federal kingdom of Belgium is the result after the 2010–2011 Belgian government formation, with 541 days of negotiations, the longest ever in Belgium and possibly the world.