Category: Perspectives And Theories On The Origin Of The State

chVoltaire’s remark that ‘The first King was a fortunate warrior’ exemplifies the notion that a superior force must be behind the origin of the State. Force theory typically implies that the origin of the State is found in the subjugation of the weak by the stronger. In the primitive stage of evolution, physically stronger people must have…

Political thinkers and analysts have differed about the factors and circumstances that are responsible for the origin of the State. Some attribute it to force, some to a divine dispensation and some to historical and social factors, including social contract by the people living in the state of nature or origin of classes and ownership…

We discussed the concept and elements of the State, and the evolution of the State to its present form—the nation-state. We will study the various perspectives and theories of the State by taking into account rival and contested approaches that seek to find out how and when the State originated, its nature, its sphere of…