State


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1 The nature of human society.
2 Comparison of human and animal gregariousness, human and animal societies.
3 Comparison of the family and the state in origin, structure, and government, matriarchal or patriarchal societies.
4 Associations intermediate between the family and the state, the village or tribal community, civil society as the stage between family and state.
5 Social groups other than the family or the state, religious, charitable, educational, and economic organizations, the corporation.
6 The general theory of the state.
7 Definitions of the state or political community, its form and purpose.
8 Comparison of the state and the soul, the conception of the state as a living organ-ism, the body politic.
9 The state as a corporate person.
10 The progressive realization of the state as the process of history, the state as the divine idea as it exists on earth, the national spirit.
11 The state as a part or the whole of society.
12 The source or principle of the state's sovereignty, the sovereignty of the prince, the sovereignty of the people.
13 The economic aspect of the state, differentiation of states according to their economic systems.
14 The political structure of the state, its determination by the form of government.
15 The primacy of the state or the human person, the welfare of the state and the happiness of its members.
16 Church and state, the relation of the city of God to the city of man.
17 The origin, preservation, and dissolution of the state.
18 The development of the state from other communities.
19 The state as natural or conventional or both.
20 Man as by nature a political animal, the human need for civil society.
21 Natural law and the formation of the state.
22 The condition of man in the state of nature and in the state of civil society, the state of war in relation to the state of nature.
23 The social contract as the origin of civil society or the state, universal consent as the basis of the constitution or government of the state.
24 Love and justice as the bond of men in states, friendship and patriotism.
25 Fear and dependence as the cause of social cohesion, protection and security.
26 The identity and continuity of a state, the dissolution of the body politic or civil society.
27 The physical foundations of society, the geographic and biologic conditions of the state.
28 The territorial extent of the state, its importance relative to different forms of government.
29 The influence of climate and geography on political institutions and political economy.
30 The size, diversity, and distribution of populations, the causes and effects of their increase or decrease.
31 The social structure or stratification of the state.
32 The political distinction between ruling and subject classes, and between citizens and denizens.
33 The family as a member of the state, its autonomy and its subordination.
34 The classes or subgroups arising from the division of labor or distinctions of birth, the social hierarchy and its causes.
35 The conflict of classes within the state.
36 The opposition of social groups, the treatment of national, racial, and religious minorities.
37 The clash of economic interests and political factions, the class war.
38 The classless society.
39 The ideal or best state, the contrast between the ideal state and the best that is historically real or practicable.
40 The political institutions of the ideal state.
41 The social and economic arrangements of the ideal state.
42 Factors affecting the quality of states.
43 Wealth and political welfare.
44 The importance of the arts and sciences in political life.


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