The Orthocratic StateBloomsbury Academic, 30. 6. 2003. - 216 страница Sicker argues that it is the achievement of orthocracy as the motivating concept of the state rather than democracy as its optimum form that is crucial for mankind in the 21st century, notwithstanding that the widespread adoption of substantive democracy may be the best currently conceivable means for reaching the goal of universal responsible statehood. In a critique of much modern political theory, Sicker reexamines the essential idea of the state as well as its purpose as understood from a variety of perspectives, a subject that has largely been neglected over the past several decades as a subject of interest to political theorists in the United States. He then considers the relationship of the state to its constituents, a subject that leads to a discussion of rights and obligations, and whether that relationship is defined entirely by the state or whether its constituents are endowed with natural rights that are independent of the state that the state must take into account in asserting its authority. This is followed by an extensive discussion of the corollary concepts of generic, social, political, and economic equality, and concludes with a consideration of some ideas that might serve as the motivating principles of an orthocratic state. |
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... force exercised by the State as limited to the restraint of disorderly persons by the police and the punishment of inten- tional law - breakers . " The state , which he characterizes as " the operative criticism of all institutions ...
... force . Of course , force is certainly not the normal or the only means of the state - nobody says that — but force is a means specific to the state . " 55 Leslie Lipson observed in this regard , " Many of the problems which are ...
... force and consent are correlative terms , and one does not exist without the other . " He suggests that every act of " consent " contains an element of " force , " that is , it is conditioned by the knowledge of certain compelling facts ...
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The Essence of the State | 17 |
Natural and Legislated | 43 |
The Idea and Ideal of Equality | 75 |
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