Question

Short note on nature of state in political science

Answer 1

State of nature, in political theory, the real or hypothetical condition of human beings before or without political association. Many social-contracttheorists, such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, relied on this notion to examine the limits and justification of political authority or even, as in the case of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the legitimacy of human society itself. Visions of the state of nature differ sharply between theorists, although most associate it with the absence of state sovereignty.