Many writers from ancient times to the present have seen parallels between the family and the forms of the state.

The forms of the state come and go, and the nation endures through it all.

This declaration was perceived for some as representing a form of the state's surveillance over its citizens' religious choices.

Second, the form of the state allows the interests of groups and classes other than the dominant class to find expression within it.

The earliest forms of the state emerged whenever it became possible to centralize power in a durable way.

It is this dynamic which, by defining the forces in the field in concrete terms, allows the particular forms of the state to be determined.

It is the most recently formed of the state's 39 counties (see list of counties in Washington).

It resulted in the forming of the state police, stripping the military of policiary work.

It is formed of the State Engineers of the Mines.

Electors had two votes: one to elect the representatives, and one to choose the institutional form of the State.

It posed the question of the form of the state as a fundamental precondition to developing any further agreements with the other parties.

Under this model, authority became centralised in the form of the state, represented through government, the most visible manifestation of which is the legislature.

Displayed in this parable is the power of narrative, the capacity of stories to change the form of the state.

After the abolition of devadasi system, this dance becomes the most developed classical dance form of the State.

Nor do even the Utopian outlines exist of other forms of the State which seem, at any rate ideally, preferable.

They said other delegations had rejected their demand to deal with the issues of violence and the future form of the state before setting an election date.

Article 1: The form of the state of Russia should be a federative democratic republic based on principles of the national autonomy.

Political argument was usually about particular forms of the State, about the grounds of its legitimacy, and about the way its power was used.

Whether under the rule of a trading company or a provincial governor or a republican representative legislature, Americans have never known any other form of the State.

To the link catholicism-nation de Valera was also adding Gaelic identity in the form of the state promotion of the language:

Is not the Republic the vehicle of three or four great truths which, to Plato's own mind, are most naturally represented in the form of the State?

I mean, I replied, that there appear to be as many forms of the soul as there are distinct forms of the State.

A debate on the form of the state also ensued; Mindszenty led a vigorous monarchist campaign but despite some uncertainty among the Smallholders, a republic was chosen.

The distinction which each of these writers make between forms of the state provide the normativist with a justification for viewing the positive state as a degenerate form.

In 2007, the state legislature passed a non-binding resolution declaring the possessive form of the state's name to be Arkansas's, which has been followed increasingly by the state government.