· Garner:

“the government is the agency or machinery

through which common policies are
determined and by which common affairs are
regulated and common interests promoted”

· Responsible for the maintenance of law

and order and provision of common services

· GIDDINGS:

“The government is the chief progressive

organization of civil society”

· Country to country

4. Sovereignty

· JEAN BODIN: The father of Modern Theory

of Sovereignty
· it means supreme and final legal authority
above and beyond which no legal power
exists

· The final authority in the state

· Without sovereignty, there can be no state

in the legal sense.

· Distinguishes the state from another

organization

· It is only the sovereign who can keep all

the sections of society in their proper places

· Internal Sovereignty:

-the state is supreme over all its citizens and

associations