Twenty One Reasons Why Statism Is A Radical And Radically Incoherent T

[Sternhauser]

Those aren't definitions.

~Sternhauser

[KnightofChrist]

[quote name='Sternhauser' date='24 May 2010 - 09:00 PM' timestamp='1274749244' post='2116864']
Those aren't definitions.

~Sternhauser
[/quote]

Their real life examples. If you want definitions that would be based upon the Constitution or type of Government.

[KnightofChrist]

[quote name='Sternhauser' date='24 May 2010 - 09:00 PM' timestamp='1274749244' post='2116864']
Those aren't definitions.

~Sternhauser
[/quote]

Their real life examples. If you want exact definitions that would be based upon the Constitution or type of Government. But States have many different forms and ways of working. The generic definition is State is wide because so many forms of States exist.

Such a definition would as follows...

[quote]
According to scholastic philosophy, the authoritative direction of a people, requiring them to use certain prescribed means for realizing a predetermined plan for the common good. Essential to the notion of government are authority vested in certain designated persons; management of things pertaining to the common good; an official plan or overview of what needs to be done to promote the welfare of the society; laws that express the will of those in authority relative to the advancement of the public good; sanctions that may be imposed on those who do not observe the laws. (Etym. Latin gubernare, to direct, manage, conduct, govern, guide.) [/quote]

Pope Leo XIII in his Encyclical Immortale Dei, does a good job at explaining what a State is...

[quote]It is not difficult to determine what would be the form and character of the State were it governed according to the principles of Christian philosophy. Man's natural instinct moves him to live in civil society, for he cannot, if dwelling apart, provide himself with the necessary requirements of life, nor procure the means of developing his mental and moral faculties. Hence it is divinely ordained that he should lead his life, be it family, social, or civil, with his fellow-men, amongst whom alone his several wants can be adequately supplied. But as no society can hold together unless someone be over all, directing all to strive earnestly for the cornmon good, every civilized community must have a ruling authority, and this authority, no less than society itself, has its source in nature, and has consequently God for its author. Hence it follows that all public power must proceed from God. For God alone is the true and supreme Lord of the world. Everything without exception must be subject to Him, and must serve Him, so that whosoever holds the right to govern, holds it from one sole and single source, namely God, the Sovereign Ruler of all. 'There is no power but from God.' [/quote]

Edited May 25, 2010 by KnightofChrist

[KnightofChrist]

*bump* so we can begin again where we left off, or give people a chance to give me more negatives for attacking the heresy of anarchy.

Either way thanks in advance.

Edited June 5, 2010 by KnightofChrist

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='KnightofChrist' date='05 June 2010 - 12:22 AM' timestamp='1275711772' post='2123974']
*bump* so we can begin again where we left off, or give people a chance to give me more negatives for attacking the heresy of archery.

Either way thanks in advance.
[/quote]
+n, where n = some big number that I wasn't counting.

[Winchester]

[quote name='Sternhauser' date='24 May 2010 - 08:44 PM' timestamp='1274748296' post='2116851']
But you don't [s]even know what[/s] agree with my bizarro definition of what the State is, so it's kind of pointless.

~Sternhauser
[/quote]
fxd