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Principle of classifications of Associations and Unions of States. Some writers classify real unions, confederations, and federal unions as different forms of a “composite” state, distinguishing from a “simple” state. But this classification is unsound because real unions and confederations are not in fact states, nor is a federal union a “composite” state. Its government … Read more
Kinds of Part-Sovereign States. Many writers, especially on international law, recognize as states certain communities that are not entirely independent and therefore not fully sovereign in their external relations and may not be completely so in respect to their internal affairs. They are sometimes designated as half-sovereign states, sometimes merely as part-sovereign-states. To some degree, … Read more
The classification of states or government by ancient Greek Aristotle and Modern Classifications of State by modern writers and views. The Classification of Waitz and Others:- As has been said, attempts to classify states have been innumerable, but it would serve little purpose to describe them all. Therefore, it must suffice to call attention to … Read more
Principles Classification of State is based on two principles: (1) The number of persons who exercise supreme power. (2) The ends they seek to serve self-interest or benefit of the community. Aristotle was of the view that when the rulers aimed at the good of the community, the states would be a pure form of … Read more
The Idealistic or Metaphysical Theory is an ontological doctrine that holds that reality itself is incorporeal or experiential at its core. Beyond this, idealists disagree on which aspects of the mental are more basic. Statement of the Theory:- The idealist theory of the state, sometimes called the absolute theory, the philosophical theory, often the metaphysical … Read more
In moral and political philosophy, the social contract is a theory of state or model that originated during the Age of Enlightenment and is usually concerned with the legitimacy of the state’s authority over the individual. In this condition, individuals’ actions are bound only by their personal power and conscience. The Theory Explained:- As stated … Read more
The Organismic Theory Distinguished from Other Theories. In a sense, the state’s organismic theory represents the antithesis of the juridical theory, which, at least in the minds of some of its supporters, conceives the state to be a legal fiction or a purely mental concept of the jurists. The organismic-theory goes to the other extreme … Read more
The Juridical Theory of State of all varieties of social co-operation, one dominates the others. It is the State, and a fundamental problem in every law system consists of settling the legal relations between the State and its members, both the individuals and the juridical persons. Points of View:- As pointed out in an earlier … Read more
Attacks Upon the Doctrine of Sovereignty. Doctrines of state sovereignty tend to become salient in periods of acute political conflict and rapid social change. This is clearly evident in the attention given to the idea of sovereignty by writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The necessity of Sovereignty Denied:- Many writers on political science … Read more
The Soviet Concept of ‘Limited Sovereignty‘ The Theory of Limited Sovereignty from Lenin to Gorbachev. The Brezhnev Doctrine. Non-Legal Limitations:- The traditional and still generally accepted theory of sovereignty is that it is legally unlimited and unimitable. Being the supreme power in the state, they cannot, legally speaking, be any authority above it, and to … Read more