Question

3. What are the four attributes of a state? Explain each attribute.

Answer 1

Answer:

The state has four essential attributes, viz., Population, Territory, Government and Sovereignty. Population and territory constitute the physical basis of the State while government and sovereignty constitute its legal basis or political basis.

Answer 2

The state is indeed an ancient institution. It refers to a relationship with laws and a government that exists inside a designated region.

The four attributes are:

• Population- Man's social instincts have resulted in the state. Human people are required for the state to exist, just as the yarn is required for the creation of fabric. Every state is required to have a population of a specific size. However, there is debate among political intellectuals about the overall population that a state should have. Tiny governments with small populations were favored by ancient Greek thinkers such as Aristotle and Plato.
• Territory-It is the State's second most important foundation. A state is not defined just by its population. It must be able to claim a certain region. Nomads and gypsies cannot have a state since they live on the road. Small states coexist with large ones in today's globe. There are currently around 200 or so states, ranging in size from the tiny state of Monaco's four square miles to the Soviet Union's ten and a half million square miles. In the middle, there are states of varied sizes, such as the Indian Union, which covers 12,69,640 sq miles.
• Government or Unity of Organization- The government creates an agency through which the state's will is developed, articulated, and carried out. If there is no government, the population is nothing other than a disorganized mass of individuals. Regulation and adjustment are brought about by the government in the lives of the people. It is the state's organization without which the people, no matter how large, will be unable to create, express, and enforce its will. Before a state may form, "settled relations of authority and obedience" are required. The government is the only one who can form this connection.
• Sovereignty- This is the most crucial feature of a state, and it is this feature that sets it apart from other social groups. A sovereign authority must exist inside a state that is independent of both external as well as the internal control. Internally, a state is superior if a substantial portion of its people willingly obeys its rules and it is capable of punishing those who do not. The state's internal supremacy also indicates that no individual or group of individuals is higher or more powerful than the state.