State and Non-State Flashcards
it is a community of persons, more or less numerous, occupying a definite portion of earth’s surface, having its own government, through which the inhabitants render habitual obedience free from outside control.
State
It is important that a community of persons is composed of both males and females for purposes of reproduction. Reproduction is indispensable. It is through reproduction that the state can continue to exist.
People or Population
should be a fixed and bounded portion of the earth’s surface. Within it, are natural resources that are vital for people to live. The inhabitants have the responsibility to conserve and protect these resources. Furthermore, the people must be able to defend their state from invaders and doing so, the use of force.
Territory
body where people, through their representatives, can express their desire. This is where that laws to be implemented in the country are enacted. Since it is believed that the government should be established by the people themselves, through the Constitution that they will promulgate, it is but logical for them to bestow their obedience to it. The people should follow the laws and respect authority.
Government
Elements of the State
- People or Population
- Territory
- Government
- Sovereignty
Three Branches of Government
- Legislative
- Executive
- Judiciary
formulate the will of the state i.e. performs law- making functions;
Legislative
enforces and implements the laws i.e. performs the law- application functions
Executive
applies the laws to specific cases and settles the disputes i.e. performs adjudication functions
Judiciary
refers to the supreme power of the state to rule itself without interference from other state.
This means that the state is an independent entity where people enjoy freedom. A territory is not a state if it is not independent.
Sovereignty
Origin of the State
- Devine Theory
- Social Contraction Theory
- Force Theory
• The people have agreed to established the state to their common benefit.
• It postulates a state of nature as the original condition’s mankind and a social contract.
• The state of nature was not an organized society.
• Each man living therein led a life of his own, uncontrolled by any laws of human imposition
Social Contraction Theory
• It holds that the state was created by God for the people.
• The State its advocates maintain was Created by God and governed by His deputy or vicegerent.
• He (God) sent His deputy to rule over them.
• The ruler was divinely appointed agent and he was responsible for his actions to God alone.
• As the ruler was the deputy of God, obedience to him was held to be religious duty and resistance a sin.
• To complain against the authority of the ruler and characterize his actions as unjust was a sin for which there was divine punishment.
Devine Theory
• It was established through the use of force in order for people to follow.
• Emphasizes the origin of the State in subornation of the weak to the strong.
• A person physically stronger than captured and enslaved the weak.
• Having increased the number of his followers, over whom he exercised undisputed authority, he became a tribal chief.
• The powerful conquered the weak this process of conquest and domination continued till the victorious tribe secured control over a definite territory.
Force Theory
These are institutions which are not owned and controlled by the government. Some non-state institutions are either for profit or non-profit and some are for personal investments and financial assistance.
Non State Institutions
Forms of Non State Institutions
- Bank and Corporations
- Cooperatives and Trade Union
- Transnational Advocacy Group
- Development Agencies