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Politics

Free state (government), a loosely defined term used by various (pseudo) independent states at different times and places:
- Congo Free State, a government privately controlled by Leopold II, King of the Belgians through the Association internationale africaine
- Free State of Fiume, an independent free state which existed between 1920 and 1924
- Irish Free State, the state established as a Dominion on 6 December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty
- Orange Free State, a Boer republic and later province of South Africa, that became the present-day Free State province
- German States' adopted designation after the abolition of monarchy in the aftermath of World War I:
  - Free State of Anhalt, formed after Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt abdicated on 12 November 1918, ending the Duchy of Anhalt
  - Free State of Bavaria, (extant)
  - Free State Bottleneck, a short-lived quasi-state that existed from 10 January 1919 until 25 February 1923
  - Free State of Brunswick, a republic formed after the abolition of the Duchy of Brunswick at the end of World War I
  - People's State of Hesse, the name of the German state of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1918 until 1945
  - Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, a state in the Weimar Republic that was established in 1918 following the German Revolution
  - Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a state of the Weimar Republic established in 1918 following the German Revolution
  - Free State of Prussia (1918–1933), a German state formed after the abolition of the Kingdom of Prussia in the aftermath of World War I
  - Free State of Saxony (extant)
  - Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe, created following the abdication of Prince Adolf II of Schaumburg-Lippe on the 15 November 1918
  - Free Republic of Schwarzenberg, an unoccupied area in Western Saxony that existed for several weeks after the German capitulation on May 8, 1945.
  - Free State of Thuringia,(extant)
  - Free People's State of Württemberg, the official name of the state of Württemberg during the Weimar Republic
Free state (United States), prior to the American Civil War, a "free state" was one in which the owning of slaves was not legal
The Free State Project, an American libertarian political movement, founded in 2001

Famous quotes containing the word politics:

“His talk was like a spring, which runs
With rapid change from rocks to roses:
It slipped from politics to puns,
It passed from Mahomet to Moses;
Beginning with the laws which keep
The planets in their radiant courses,
And ending with some precept deep
For dressing eels, or shoeing horses.”
—Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839)