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jects: the constitution of the state, the form of the government, 

 and the regulation embodied in the law — the state, the government, 

 the law. 



THE STATE. 



A state is a body politic — an organized group of men with an 

 established government and a body of determined law. In the 

 organization of societies units of different orders are discovered. 

 A society of the highest or first order is made up of a number of 

 societies or groups of a second order, and these may again be made 

 up of a number of groups of a third or fourth order. The term 

 state as here used embraces the entire body of men included in 

 the largest unit (and consequently all the men of each subordinate 

 unit) when it refers to the body politic as a group of men, and 

 when it refers to the organization it includes the constituent plan 

 of the largest and its included units. It should be noticed that 

 this use of the term state is not consistent with a common practice 

 in this country, but we may illustrate by reference thereto. The 

 term state would thus be synonymous with the United States, in- 

 cluding its several units of states, counties, townships, cities, wards, 

 and all other subordinate divisions. The term state, then, is used 

 to designate an organized body of people of the highest order, 

 embracing all its subsidiary organizations. 



SOCIOLOGIC CLASSES. 



In the foregoing characterization of the state it has been con- 

 sidered as a body politic organized for civil government, that is, 

 for the regulation of the conduct of the individuals of the state as 

 they are related to one another. But the conduct of the members 

 of the state, or of the entire body politic, may have relations to 

 other bodies politic ; so that conduct must be regulated in its 

 internal relations and in its external relations. 



Now, the relations of state to state may be regulated by common 

 agreement, and they are thus regulated to a large extent. But 



