W2 - The State

• State


  The modern term "_____" is derived from the word "status".
• STATE by James W. Garner


  A community of persons, more or less numerous, permanently occupying a definite portion of territory, having a government of their own to which the great body of inhabitants render habitual obedience, and enjoying freedom from external control.
• STATE by Alisha Holland


  A numerous assemblage of human beings, generally occupying a certain territory among whom the will of the majority or of an ascertainable class of persons is by the strength of such a majority made to prevail against any of their members who oppose it.
• STATE by John William Burgess


  A particular portion of mankind viewed as an organized unit.
• STATE by US Pres. Woodrow Wilson


  A people organized for law within a definite territory.
• STATE by Aristotle


  State is a union of families and villages having for its end a perfect and self-sufficing life by which we mean a happy and honorable life.
• STATE by Robert M. Maclver


  The _____ is an association which, acting through law as promulgated by a government endowed to this end with coercive power, maintains within a community territorially demarcated the universal external conditions of social order.
• STATE by Max Weber


  An association that claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence.
• People/Population


  It refers to the mass population living within the state. "People" answers the question, "Who governs whom?"
• Territory


  The demarcated area that rightly belongs to the population.
• Government


  The agency to which the will of the state is formulated expressed, and carried out.
• Government


  It is an institution or aggregate of institutions by which an independent society makes and carries out those rules of action necessary to enable men to live in a social state, or that which are imposed upon the people by those who possess the power or authority of prescribing them.
• Sovereignty


  The supreme power of the state to command and enforce obedience its will from the people within its jurisdiction, and corollarily, to have freedom from foreign control.
• Internal Sovereignty


  The state is supreme over all its citizens, and associations.
• External Sovereignty


  The state is independent and free from foreign or outside control.
• Divine Right Theory


  This theory holds that the state is of divine creation and the ruler is ordained by God to govern the people. Reference has been made by advocates of this theory to the laws which Moses received at Mount Sinai.
• Divine Right Theory


  This is the oldest theory concerned in the origin of state. According to this theory, state is established and governed by God himself by agent or vice regent or vicar of God. The chief exponent of this theory in early times were the Jews and supporters were the early church fathers.
• Necessity or Force Theory


  It maintains that the state must have been created as a product of the existence of the strong and the weak in society, and as a result of their struggle against each other wherein those who are strong are able to dominate and impose their will upon the weak.
• Natural or Instinctive Theory


  It holds that the state is founded out of man's natural instinct for association. The social urge of the human being to be within a group of people in the community as in sociology describes that "man is a social being."
• Natural or Instinctive Theory


  The social group provides the political development to stay and work together with common goal in the community and later on transforms into a state.
• Patriarchal Theory


  It attributes the origin of states to the enlargement of the family which remained under the authority of the father or mother.
• Patriarchal Theory


  By natural stages, the family grew into a clan, then developed into a tribe which broadened into a nation and the nation became a state.
• Social Contract Theory


  Asserts that the early states must have been formed by deliberate and voluntary compact among the people to form a society and organize government for their common good.
• Historical and Evolutionary Theory


  This theory explains that "the state is the product of growth, a slow and steady evolution extending over a long period of time and ultimately shaping itself into the complex structure of a modern state." This theory is more scientific.
• Kinship


  The most important and was based upon blood relationship and it was the first strongest bond of unity.
• Religion


  Provided the bond of unity in early society. It also affected all walks of life. The worship of a common ancestor and common goods created a sense of social solidarity.
• Force


  Also played an important part in the evolution of the state. It was the use of physical force that was responsible for the growth of kingdoms and empires.
• Property and Defense


  Played a vital role in the evolution of state in ancient times particularly among the people who were nomads and vagabonds and tribes.
• Political Consciousness


  Arising from the fundamental needs of life for protection and order. When the people settle down on a definite territory in pursuit of their, subsistence and a desire to secure it from encroachment by others.
• State


  A community of persons occupying a definite territory, have government of their own, and enjoying freedom from external control.
• Nation


  A society of inhabitants of a specific geographic region united and bound together by a common racial ancestry, the same language and culture, historical past, laws and a shared interests and sentiments over the passing of many years.
• State


  A political concept.
• Nation


  An ethnic or racial concept.
• State


  Not subject to external control.
• Nation


  May or may not be independent of external control.
• State


  A single _______ may consist of one or more nations or peoples.
• Nation


  A single _____ may be made up of different states.
• Police Power


  The power of government to enforce obedience from the people in the promotion of public health, morals, or safety, and the general well-being of the community.
• Police Power


  It is the inherent power of government to enact and enforce laws for the promotion of general welfare.
• Power of Eminent Domain


  The power possessed by the state over all property within the state, specifically its power to appropriate property for a public purpose.