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Revision as of 16:09, 4 February 2010

Federation  (FEDERATION)


A country1 is usually the territory (301-2) of a people2 (cf. 333-3) or a nation2. Persons belonging to a nation share, in general, a common culture. A state3 is a political body. The term may be used in two different senses: most commonly a state is a body possessing full sovereignty in its territory and over its inhabitants. However, a number of federations4 or federal states4 are divided into smaller units which are also called states5 and whose sovereignty is not absolute (e. g. in the United States of America and Australia). The term territory6 (301-2) is generally used for a geographical area, but it is occasionally used to denote a political unit which has been colonized or settled relatively recently. A distinction is sometimes made between self-governing territories7 and non-self-governing territories8.
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