States Provincial

States Provincial may refer to:

  • States Provincial (France), assembly of a province in ancien regime France
  • States Provincial (Netherlands), elected assembly of a province of the Netherlands

Famous quotes containing the words states and/or provincial:

    “A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory—horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene—and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)