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State Government and Administration of the United States of America  State government and Administration The importance of the State in the American polity cannot be overemphasized. According to Prof. Munro, "The States are still the pivot around which the whole American political system revolves. Were it not for the States, the national government could not function; a President could not be elected, nor could Congressmen be chosen; for it is the States that arrange the congressional districts, prepare the voters lists and provide the machinery of elections. In them, too is to be found the organized party life of the nation, so important in actual conduct of our electoral institutions- national parties being little more than instruments for coordinating the individual State units of the same partisan allegations for nation-wide election campaigns. Again "without the action of the State legislatures (either by ratifying or initiating proposals) no formal amendment could be a...