American state

“Besides, if Crassus had cut off Spartacus about fifty miles northeast of Regium, he would have left the rebels in control of a large territory to the south, about a thousand square miles in size, roughly equivalent to the American state of Rhode Island or the English county of Hampshire.”

Simon & Schuster: The Spartacus War

“Thc convention of 1889 voted to abolish this distinction; but this vote also failed of ratification, and the discrimination still remains a blot on the fairest and first of all written American state constitutions.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman