Abstract

BURGOS SILVA, German. The modern state as an armed abstraction. Some insights. Rev. repub. [online]. 2018, n.24, pp.105-126. ISSN 1909-4450.  https://doi.org/10.21017/rev.repub.2018.v24.a42.

The Modern State plays a key role at national and international levels. Several law studies have documented how states are a sum of three public branches and they are produced by previous social contract between free and equal individuals. As a part of this approach, states possess political power. Previous studies of the state have not dealt adequately with the idea that power is not something that someone can have because power does not have a materiality in itself. It is not a thing to hold. This article seeks to understand and explain how the modern state is an abstract construction funded more in faith than in a social contract that have never existed. Additionally this article sustain that political power should be defined because of the use of coercion or monopolized violence instead the reference of public ends or the pacific solution of differences.

Keywords : The Modern State; monopolization of violence; legal fictions.

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