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Redundancy
The term "sovereign state" is redundant. International law defines "states", not "sovereign states". Sovereignty is an aspect of a state. States are sovereign by their nature else they get adjectives (e.g. "failed state" or "subjugated state"). This appears to be a misapplication of a term in order to give it vernacular clarity (i.e. to avoid the natural confusion of U.S. English speakers who are confused by the application of the term "state" to foreign states and the United States of America as a whole in terms of international relations and the states that comprise the United States of America. Bear in mind that as a state the United States of America is a federation of independent states as are other states like Switzerland (The Confederation Helvetica), Germany (the Federal Republic of Germany), and Austria (The Republic of Austria) and the first term in the afore mentioned collection is more accurately the name of the country rather than the state.  Bear in mind as well that a state must have a country, but a country does not necessarily need a state (e.g. Yemen, Yugoslavia, arguably Afghanistan), and a nation can exist regardless of either (e.g. the Kurdish Nation). The UN charter presupposes nation states, but the reality is that many states are multinational. The problem is that U.S. vernacular, we tend to use the term "country" out of context to refer to both the state and the geographic entity, which are not necessarily the same, because we forget that our state is a federation of states.