premise: A U.S. state is Phoenix, Arizona.
hypothesis: The Arizona State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arizona . Interstate 40 ( I-40 ) is an east -- west Interstate Highway that has a 359.6 mi section in the U.S. state of Arizona connecting sections in California to New Mexico . Phoenix ( [ ˈfiːnᵻks ] ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona . Robert Taylor Jones ( February 8 , 1884 -- June 11 , 1958 ) was the sixth Governor of the U.S. state of Arizona and served from 1939 to 1941 . A U.S. state is a constituent political entity of the United States of America .