Originea și evoluția statului

Abstract

The paper is an attempt to describe and explain the evolution of the state and in particular in Western Europe, an area were the modern democratic regimes originated. As in the early stages of the political thought wast stated by Aristotle, men is a “political animal”. Still, being aware about the constraint resulted from the living under the strain of the rules imposed by the forms of human association called states, the question is what were the motives that determined the human beings to accept and even develop such kind of organizations. Also, it is important to understand why the modern democratic political regimes developed in a such narow geographical area as Western Europe and what were the conditions that favorized this particular kind of evolution. As is presented in the paper, the Western European societies evolved from a stage characterized by a high level a desorder and violence to what the french author Francois Guizot is designing as “the Government and the Country”.