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organization of the state  

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  • States are the most important political organizations in the modern world. In the last four centuries or so they have come to a large extent to dominate and subsume other forms of territorially based political organization such as empires, cities, feudal structures, tribes, and villages. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Organization Of The State]

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