Study Set Content:
The state was created when people entered into a voluntary agreement to live together (the social phase) and to establish a government (the political phase).
Social Contract Theory.
The contract calls for the people to () the state and for the state to () the people.
support, protect
If the government becomes corrupt and decadent, then the people could rise up and () that government and replace it witha better one.
overthrow
encourages a revolution if it would result to the betterment of the state.
social contract theory
is a political concept;
state
is an ethnic concept.
Nation
Under international law state is not equivalent to
nation
refers to a people existing in an organized society, inhabiting a portion of the earth, speaking the same language, having the same customs, possessing the same historic continuity and distinguished from other groups by their racial origins and characteristics, and generally living under one government and sovereignty.
Nation
properly refers to a state whose territorial extent coincides with that occupied by a distinct nation or people, or at least, whose population shares a general sense of cohesion and adherence to a set of common values
Nation-state
can’t exist without people
state
can exist stateless.
nation
The Kurds live in at least four states:
Syria, Iraq, Iran & Turkey.
are living as a minority group in Myanmar.
Rohingya
could be living in many states
nation
can be composed of many nations.
state
a national group living in many states
Arabs
a multinational state.
United States
cannot be subjected to external control
state
may or may not be subject to external control.
nation
State Distinguished from Government:
Usually regarded as identical
. A state cannot exist without a government
. A government may change
