Nachtwächterstaat

== German == === Etymology === Nachtwächter (“night watchman”) +‎ Staat (“state”); coined by German socialist Ferdinand Lassalle in an 1862 speech in Berlin. He used this term to criticize the idea of a state with minimal government, comparing it to a night watchman whose sole duty was preventing theft. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈnaxtvɛçtɐˌʃtaːt] Hyphenation: Nacht‧wäch‧ter‧staat === Noun === Nachtwächterstaat m (mixed, genitive Nachtwächterstaates or Nachtwächterstaats, plural Nachtwächterstaaten) night watchman state ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== Krisenstaat Minarchismus Mitgliedsstaat Staatenbund ==== Descendants ==== → English: night watchman state (calque) === Further reading === “Nachtwächterstaat” in Duden online “Nachtwächterstaat” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache