state

See:
  • a fine state of affairs
  • a pretty state of affairs
  • a sad state (of affairs)
  • a sorry state (of affairs)
  • a state of affairs
  • be in a sorry state
  • be in a state
  • blue state
  • deep state
  • flyover states
  • green state
  • in a (constant) state of flux
  • in a lather
  • in a sorry state
  • in a state
  • in a state of nature
  • in flux
  • in good/poor/etc. state of repair
  • in state
  • lie in state
  • nanny state
  • pretty state of affairs
  • purple state
  • raise (someone or something) from (some state)
  • raise (someone or something) out of (some state)
  • raise to (some state)
  • red state
  • sad state of affairs, a
  • send into (something or some place)
  • send into a state or condition
  • ship of state
  • something is rotten in (the state of) Denmark
  • something is rotten in the state of Denmark
  • state of affairs
  • state of denial
  • state of grace
  • state of mind
  • state of play
  • state of the art
  • swing state
  • the nanny state
  • the state of play
  • turn state's evidence
  • whip into a state
  • yellow state
References in classic literature
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, Dockyards, and other needful Buildings;--And
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
The opportunities which some States would have of rendering others tributary to them by commercial regulations would be impatiently submitted to by the tributary States.
The public debt of the Union would be a further cause of collision between the separate States or confederacies.
Still there is great room to suppose that the rule agreed upon would, upon experiment, be found to bear harder upon some States than upon others.
Aristotle's Politics, then, is a handbook for the legislator, the expert who is to be called in when a state wants help.
He assumes the characteristic Platonic view that all men seek the good, and go wrong through ignorance, not through evil will, and so he naturally regards the state as a community which exists for the sake of the good life.
The Greek doctrine that the essence of the state consists in community of purpose is the counterpart of the notion often held in modern times that the essence of the state is force.
Were an answer to this question to be sought, not by recurring to principles, but in the application of the term by political writers, to the constitution of different States, no satisfactory one would ever be found.
It is SUFFICIENT for such a government that the persons administering it be appointed, either directly or indirectly, by the people; and that they hold their appointments by either of the tenures just specified; otherwise every government in the United States, as well as every other popular government that has been or can be well organized or well executed, would be degraded from the republican character.
They ought, with equal care, to have preserved the FEDERAL form, which regards the Union as a CONFEDERACY of sovereign states; instead of which, they have framed a NATIONAL government, which regards the Union as a CONSOLIDATION of the States." And it is asked by what authority this bold and radical innovation was undertaken?
Besides, it is well known that acknowledgments, explanations, and compensations are often accepted as satisfactory from a strong united nation, which would be rejected as unsatisfactory if offered by a State or confederacy of little consideration or power.
In the year 1685, the state of Genoa having offended Louis XIV., endeavored to appease him.
It is of high importance to the peace of America that she observe the laws of nations towards all these powers, and to me it appears evident that this will be more perfectly and punctually done by one national government than it could be either by thirteen separate States or by three or four distinct confederacies.