State as political, structural and territorial organization of class society.
The state is an organization of political power, which strongly contributes to the implementation of specific interests within a given territory. It is necessary to take into account two aspects: the formal aspect, when a State is an organization ofpolitical power, and the content aspect, i.e.
whose interests are served this organization. However, any state is engaged in public affairs, and protects the public interest (e.g., crime, epidemics, and natural disasters). It serves the community as whole and certain social forces. This ratio in different periods of history is different. The authors of one of the books on theory of law wrote: «The State is the organization of the political power needed to perform a purely class objectives and general affairs arising from the nature of all of society». Here is a more detailed definition of the state: «The state is a special organization of the public, the political power of the ruling class (social group), the block of class forces, all the people), which has a special device control and coercion, representing society, administers this society and ensure its integration». Other authors note that «the state is the political-territorial, sovereign organization of social control, consisting of a special apparatus, ensured through legal mandate originally interests of the ruling class, and as smooth of class contradictions carrying on a legal basis, all wider general social functions (constitutional state)». The above definitions can begrouped under the general name of «political and legal understanding of the state». The so-called «sociological» definition of the state is as follows: «The state is not only and not so much a special apparatus of social control, as an organization, integrating socially differentiated society to maintain its existence and ensure the best possible future development».
Sociological definition of the state held a famous Russian lawyer N.M. Korkunov. He stressed: «The state is a social union of free people to enforce the established order of peace by providing exclusive rights enforcement only of the State». In another work N.M. Korkunov said: «The real feature of the State is that it is one to be undertaken by the coercive power. The government is like a monopoly of coercion. The state can be defined as a social union, represents an independent recognized forcible dominion over a free people». Modern democratic state is, first of all, the whole society is a means of resolving social conflicts and means of achieving social cohesion.
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