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List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union
A
state
of the
United States of America
is one of the 50
constituent entities
that shares its
sovereignty
with the
federal government
. Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government,
Americans
are
citizens
of both the
federal republic
and of the state in which they
reside
. Four—
Kentucky
,
Massachusetts
,
Pennsylvania
, and
Virginia
—use the
term
commonwealth
rather than
state
in their full official names.
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