State
State in Law Enforcement
Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of state.
Etimology of State
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c. 1200, “circumstances, position in society, temporary attributes of a person or thing, conditions,” from Old French estat “position, condition; status, stature, station,” and directly from Latin status “a station, position, place; way of standing, posture; order, arrangement, condition,” figuratively “standing, rank; public order, community organization,” noun of action from past participle stem of stare “to stand” from PIE root *sta- “to stand, make or be firm.” Some Middle English senses are via Old French estat (French état; see estate). The Latin word was adopted into other modern Germanic languages (German, Dutch staat) but chiefly in the political senses only. Meaning “physical condition as regards form or structure” is attested from late 13c. Meaning “mental or emotional condition” is attested from 1530s (phrase state of mind first attested 1749); colloquial sense of “agitated or perturbed state” is from 1837. He [the President] shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. [U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section iii]
Etimology of the Term (in other Meaning)
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political organization of a country, supreme civil power, government, c. 1300, from special use of state (n.1); this sense grew out of the meaning “condition of a country” with regard to government, prosperity, etc. (late 13c.), from Latin phrases such as status rei publicæ “condition (or existence) of the republic.” The sense of “a semi-independent political entity under a federal authority, one of the bodies politic which together make up a federal republic” is from 1774. The British North American colonies occasionally were called states as far back as 1630s; the States has been short for “the United States of America” since 1777; also of the Netherlands. State rights in U.S. political sense is attested from 1798; form states rights is first recorded 1858. Church and state have been contrasted from 1580s. State-socialism attested from 1850.
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Legal English Vocabulary: State in Spanish
Online translation of the English legal term state into Spanish: Estado (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.
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- Law Enforcement Officer
- Police
- Law Enforcement Agency
Further Reading
- state in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
- state in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
- A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis
A sovereign actor with a central government that rules over a territory and population and represents that population in international relations.
A sovereign actor with a central government that rules over a territory and population and represents that population in international relations.
Notion of State
The meaning of State may be as follows: an organized political entity that occupies a definite territory, has a permanent population, and enjoys stable government, independence and sovereignty
Definition of State
The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of State: As defined by Max Weber (1864-1920) the institution which claims the exclusive right to the legitimate exercise of force in a given territory, through the use of police to enforce laws or the army to maintain civil stability. Institutions of the state include government and agencies like the army, police, judiciary, crown corporations, welfare bureaucracies, and regulatory bodies. While there have been stateless societies, most complex societies have state systems of formal government and administrative bureaucracies.
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Notes and References
- Drislane, R., & Parkinson, G. (2016). (Concept of) State. Online dictionary of the social sciences. Open University of Canada
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- Nation
- Province
- Sovereignty
- Rule of Law
- Public International Law
- State Territory
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