Talk:State government

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I just reverted some edits by Privacy which were well-intentioned but are clearly based on a weak understanding of political science and law. Provinces are traditionally a unit of a national government that is the sole sovereign while federalism implies some fragmentation of sovereignty. In most countries with "state governments" denominated as such, they tend to be much stronger vis-a-vis the national government than provincial governments, with the obvious exception of Canada (which does have strong provincial governments). --Coolcaesar 07:20, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Okay, to make this clearer, Canada is the weird exception in that it uses the term province for what are actually state-like entities. All other federal countries use a term that translates into English as state (with the meaning of subnational entity). Practically all other countries (the ones not organized on federal lines) use "province" or department or some other similar term. This is not that hard. --Coolcaesar 17:19, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

I am deleting all those other country sections, since after a month it's clear no one with training in political science has the time to do the proper research and fill them out. I have the training, but I don't have the time---I'm working 10 hour days at the law firm and trying to find the time to finish up the half-complete history section in the Lawyer article! There is no need for this article to look like an incomplete first draft mess. --Coolcaesar 05:54, 1 November 2006 (UTC)