ucsp

• State is an organized political community acting under a government and united by a common set of laws.
• State uses absolute power in directing the path of a society.
• State also uses complete political coerciveness, which may come in the form of armed forces personnel, stricter laws, and rigid government policies, to attain its societal goals and objectives.
• Non-state institution is a collection of people in a given place and time.
• A simple collection of people who are in the same place at the same time without interacting with each other may consist of two or more individuals who do things together with a common goal and interest.
• The concept of the state is different from the concept of government and nation.
• Government is the particular group of people that controls the state at a given time.
• Government is an organization that creates, defines, and enforces the laws of the state.
• The concept of the state is also different from the concept of nation.
• A nation is a tightly-knit group of people which share a common culture.
• State is a political geopolitical entity, while nation is a cultural or ethnic entity.
• As a state, it consists of actors with varying interests and assertions, social rules are implemented in the forms of laws.
• These laws are created to manage the interaction among individuals and between the individuals and the state.
• As a citizen of a country, an individual is subjected to the legal norms in the territory.
• These norms may include paying taxes, rendering military services and contributing to the political life in the society.
• The State intends to be a strong actor in the performance of the three important political functions: maintains control over violence in its domain, allocates resources and rewards at its discretion, and stands as the major focus of identity for the large majority of the people under its authority.
• Population is essential for the state, without population there can be no State.
• Territory is necessary for the state, without a fixed territory there can be no State.
• Government is the organization or machinery or agency of the State which makes, implements, enforces and adjudicates the laws of the state.
• Sovereignty is the most exclusive elements of State and without sovereignty no state can exist.
• The State has the exclusive title and prerogative to exercise supreme power over all its people and territory.
• Sovereignty is the basis which the State regulates all aspects of the life of the people living in its territory.