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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Unitary State

Peter Hilpold

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 04 November 2024

Subject(s):
Constitutional history — Federal constitutions — Comparative constitutional law — International law — Absolutism — Secession — State territory — Decentralization — Federalism

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 The unitary state can be seen as the archetype of the state. Still today, the vast majority of states is considered to pertain to this category. 2 When legal philosophers began to think about the state, they had the unitary state in mind. The fact, surprising at first sight, that the concept of the unitary state receives little attention in literature, might be explained by the consideration that this category of state is so common that no academic attraction is perceived in dealing with it. As a consequence, much more attention is devoted to what is considered...
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