INTR 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stephen D. Krasner, De Jure, Anthropomorphism
9 Oct 2016
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Government; group of human beings who occupy the offices of state and exercise the sovereign power of the state; enact all powers of the state( coercive power, repressive powers of the state, judicial, municipal etc) Sovereign power is located in the state units that constitute it. We argue that the state is the sole source of power. And that in an even more refined way, it is the sole source right to use power. State is the sole source and center of this power. The way they can use this power. Governments can derive this power unconstitutionally; simply by seizing power. Violently can be done through a civil war or a revolution. The power they exercise is a sovereign power. The sole source that the power is derived; the power is absolute or supreme. No actor domestically or internationally who is more powerful than the state, nobody is equal or superior to the state.
