U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a political entity. There are currently 50 of them, and they are bound together in a federation. Each has a government and can make laws over a particular area that the state covers. All states have a shared sovereignty with the U.S. federal government. People who were born or naturalized in states are citizens of both the United States and the state they are in.[1]People can move between states without asking or saying so, unless a court has said they can't. Four states call themselves "commonwealths" in their official names. Washington, D.C. is a federal district and not a state nor in a state.
States divide their territory into counties, or something similar with different name, which are not sovereign. Most states give their counties some government authority; a few states give them none. State governments get their power from the people of that state. States have a number of States' rights under the United States Constitution. States and the people that live in them are represented in the United States Congress, in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each state also selects electors (an equal number to the number of Senators and Representatives from that state) to vote in the Electoral College, which elects the President of the United States. Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, is considered as a possible 51st state for the future.
States of the United States
The 50 states, in alphabetical order, along with each state's flag:
- 22x20px Alabama
- 22x20px Alaska
- 22x20px Arizona
Arkansas
California- 22x20px Colorado
- 22x20px Connecticut
- 22x20px Delaware
- 22x20px Florida
- 22x20px Georgia
- 22x20px Hawaii
- 22x20px Idaho
- 22x20px Illinois
Indiana- 22x20px Iowa
- 22x20px Kansas
- 22x20px Kentucky
- 22x20px Louisiana
- 22x20px Maine
- 22x20px Maryland
- 22x20px Massachusetts
- 22x20px Michigan
- 22x20px Minnesota
- 22x20px Mississippi
- 22x20px Missouri
- File:Flag of Montana.svg Montana
Nebraska- 22x20px Nevada
- 22x20px New Hampshire
- 22x20px New Jersey
- 22x20px New Mexico
- 22x20px New York
- 22x20px North Carolina
- 22x20px North Dakota
Ohio- 22x20px Oklahoma
- 22x20px Oregon
- 22x20px Pennsylvania
- 22x20px Rhode Island
- File:Flag of South Carolina.svg South Carolina
- 22x20px South Dakota
- 22x20px Tennessee
- 22x20px Texas
- 22x20px Utah
- 22x20px Vermont
- 22x20px Virginia
- File:Flag of Washington.svg Washington
- 22x20px West Virginia
- 22x20px Wisconsin
- 22x20px Wyoming
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U.S. State Media
- Map of USA with state names 2.svg
Map of USA with state names 2
- Map of all U.S. Federal Land.jpg
Ownership of federal lands in the 50 states, 2005
- US states by date of statehood3.gif
The order in which the original 13 states ratified the Constitution, then the order in which the others were admitted to the Union
- US State Name Etymologies4.png
A map showing the source languages of state names
References
- ↑ Erler, Edward. "Essays on Amendment XIV: Citizenship". The Heritage Foundation. Archived from the original on July 24, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2016.