State Council

State Council may refer to:

In politics:

  • State Council of the Soviet Union, was the chief administrative authority of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
  • State Council of the People's Republic of China, the chief administrative authority of the People's Republic of China
  • Iowa State Council for Defense, the council that approved the official state flag of Iowa
  • State Council of Ceylon, the legislative body created in colonial Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) under the Donoughmore Constitution
  • State Council of the Russian Federation, advisory body to the President of Russia
  • State Council of Imperial Russia, the supreme state advisory body to the Tsar in Imperial Russia
  • State Council of Joseon, the highest organ of government under the Joseon Dynasty of Korea
  • State Council of the German Democratic Republic, the highest organ of government in East Germany
  • State Council of Bulgaria, the highest organ of government in Bulgaria
  • State National Council, a parliament-like political body formed in the late stages of the Second World War in the Soviet Union

In military:

  • State Defense Council, the military committee of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
  • State Peace and Development Council, the military regime of Myanmar

In other fields:

  • New York State Council on the Arts, an arts council serving the U.S. state of New York
  • Old North State Council, a local council of the Boy Scouts of America that serves the western Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina
  • Seventh-day Adventist Church State Council, a non-profit organization that works to preserve and promote religious freedom

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or council:

    An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
    With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
    Twelve ragged men, the council of charity
    Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)