(‘state governments’ of the ‘united states’ are ‘institutional units’ in the ‘united states’ exercising some of the ‘functions’ of ‘government’ at a level below that of the ‘federal government’)
(each state’s ‘government’ holds ‘fiscal’, ‘legislative’, and ‘executive’ authority over a ‘defined geographic territory’)
(“and what of ‘judicial authority’?”)
(the ‘united states’ comprises ’50 states’) –>
(‘the ’13 former british colonies’ already part of the ‘united states’ at the time the ‘present constitution’ took effect in ‘1789’)
(so they ‘became’ the ‘united states’ with the 1776 ‘declaration of independence’)
(although i believe the previously defined (‘british’?) borders were changed by the new american government)
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(’37 states’ that have been ‘admitted’ since by ‘congress’ as authorized under (‘article 4 / ‘section 3’) of the ‘united states constitution’)
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