Explain the meaning of the word ‘State’. How is it different from the State government?
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The state" redirects here. For other uses, see State (disambiguation).
This article is about the general definition of state. It is not to be confused with sovereign state or country.
The frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan
A state is a polity under a system of governance. There is no undisputed definition of a state.[1][2] A widely used definition from the German sociologist Max Weber is that a "state" is a polity that maintains a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, although other definitions are not uncommon.[3][4]
Some states are sovereign (known as sovereign states), while others are subject to external sovereignty or hegemony, wherein supreme authority lies in another state.[5] The term "state" also applies to federated states that are members of a federation, in which sovereignty is shared between member states and a federal body.
Speakers of American English often use the terms "state" and "government" as synonyms, with both words referring to an organized political group that exercises authority over a particular territory. In British and Commonwealth English, "state" is the only term that has that meaning, while "the government" instead refers to the ministers and officials who set the political policy for the territory, something that speakers of American English refer to as "the administration".
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the word state refers to political institutions
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