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prerogative states

prerogative states is the plural of prerogative state.

Meaning of prerogative state

Noun

prerogative state (plural prerogative states)

  1. A governmental system that exercises unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees.
    • Post-communist development in Russia has been characterized by the development of a dual state in which the constitutional order is balanced by the consolidation of an arbitrary prerogative state.2010, Richard Sakwa, “The revenge of the Caucasus: Chechenization and the dual state in Russia”, in Nationalities Papers, volume 38, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 601–622

Questions about prerogative states

What is prerogative states the plural of?
Prerogative states is the plural of prerogative state.

Words near prerogative states in the dictionary

  1. prerogatival
  2. prerogative
  3. prerogative court
  4. prerogative courts
  5. prerogative state
  6. prerogative states
  7. prerogative writ
  8. prerogative writs
  9. prerogatived
  10. prerogatively
  11. prerogatives

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