POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: De Jure
4 Oct 2015
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The political importance of the state: weber defined the within a given territorial area state as an institution claiming a. Sovereignty: controlling the territory, enforcing the laws collecting taxes, and so on. The first sovereign state fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Replacing the feudal societies where authority had been shared between the aristocracy (emperors, kings, princes, dukes, etc. ) and the roman catholic. A typology of the state: a common way of classifying states is according to how much they intervene in society and the economy, night-watchman state, the government external and internal security, plays little role in civil society. C. concentrates on ensuring allows the economic market to operate relatively unhindered. For such a state, the main duty is to protect the individual"s rights to life, liberty, and property against any threat, external or internal. Emphasizing the individual"s right to private property, the night-watchman model continues to be popular with libertarians.
