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Capital territory or federal capital territory, usually a specially designated territory where a country's seat of government is located. As such, in the federal model of government, no one state or territory takes pre-eminence because the capital lies within its borders. A capital territory can be one specific form of federal district.
All territory under the control of the federal government is considered part of the "United States" for purposes of law. [3] From 1901 to 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court in a series of opinions known as the Insular Cases held that the Constitution extended ex proprio vigore to the territories. However, the Court in these cases also established the ...
In local government in the United States, the term "unincorporated area" usually refers to the part of a county that is outside of any general-purpose municipal government. [1] An unincorporated community is one general term for a geographic area having a common social identity without municipal organization or official political designation (i ...
Unorganized territory may refer to: An unincorporated area in any number of countries; One of the current or former territories of the United States that has not had a government "organized" with an "organic act" by the U.S. Congress; Unorganized area, any geographic region in Canada that does not form part of a municipality or Indian reserve
An autonomous administrative division (also referred to as an autonomous area, zone, entity, unit, region, subdivision, province, or territory) is a subnational administrative division or internal territory of a sovereign state that has a degree of autonomy — self-governance — under the national government.
A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a state , province , division , or territory .
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as