On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 09:46 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > [1] not to get all Randroid here, but what, after all, is a police > force, if not a monopoly on the use of force?
i know saint ayn said a lot of things, but this was max weber defining a state as the entity that has a "monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory" [1] :-) -rishab 1. Weber, M. 1919/Politics Politics as a Vocation. available online at: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/moriyuki/abukuma/weber/lecture/politics_vocation.html
