The State
State as a political organised community has existed in
human history since very early time.
Ancient Greeks called it “polls”
Roman called it city-state “Civitas”
Latin term “status” became “state” in the middle Ages.
Different School of Thought
To Marxists
To Imperialist
To Anarchists
To Functionalist
Aristotle Definition
State is a community of families and villages having for its
end a perfect and self-sufficing life by which he means a
happy and honourable life.
President Woodrow Wilson define state “People organized
for law within a definite territory”.
We can define State As
“The State is a community of people occupying a definite
territory, organized under a government, which is
, supreme over all persons and association within its
territory and independent of all foreign control or power”.
Elements of state
Population
Land or Territory
Government
Sovereignty
Population
To Plato
To Aristotle
To Rousseau
Territory
No definite parameter for a size of a state.
Government
Machinery or agency through which the will of state is
formulated or expressed.
State as a political organised community has existed in
human history since very early time.
Ancient Greeks called it “polls”
Roman called it city-state “Civitas”
Latin term “status” became “state” in the middle Ages.
Different School of Thought
To Marxists
To Imperialist
To Anarchists
To Functionalist
Aristotle Definition
State is a community of families and villages having for its
end a perfect and self-sufficing life by which he means a
happy and honourable life.
President Woodrow Wilson define state “People organized
for law within a definite territory”.
We can define State As
“The State is a community of people occupying a definite
territory, organized under a government, which is
, supreme over all persons and association within its
territory and independent of all foreign control or power”.
Elements of state
Population
Land or Territory
Government
Sovereignty
Population
To Plato
To Aristotle
To Rousseau
Territory
No definite parameter for a size of a state.
Government
Machinery or agency through which the will of state is
formulated or expressed.
