In this consideration, we look to the distinction between the 'government' and the 'State', cashing out some of the implications in that distinction, and how the notion of the State as constitutive of a society's or group's identity gives rise to serious questions...
Among the challenges we encounter in our public conversations is a welter of confusion around crucial terms which, though widely used, are rarely defined... or at least rarely defined explicitly. The consequence is a situation where rather than aiding progress in conversation, they frequently impede it. This is one effort to encourage remedy of this impasse by at least approaching the definition of some of these terms...
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