What is a state and what are its characteristics?
September 27, 2020 | Education
| The state governs the affairs of society and it was the people who created the state.
The state is a unified system for managing the most important affairs of society, a way of organizing political power in the country. The main features of the state are; the presence of a certain territory, sovereignty, a broad social base, a monopoly on legitimate violence, the right to collect taxes, the public nature of power, the presence of state symbols.
