..."The State," this author assures us, "is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating...against revolt from within and attacks from abroad." Originally, according to Dr. Oppenheimer, the herdsmen, engaged in that indiscriminate robbery wherein...

...the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating...economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors. No primitive state known to history originated in any other manner.2 Few states, however, remain with...

...institution forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, says he. Its main function consists in regulating the dominion of the victorious group over...against revolt from within and attacks from abroad. And this dominion has had no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the...

...institution forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, says he. Its main function consists in regulating the dominion of the victorious group over...against revolt from within and attacks from abroad. And this dominion has had no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the...

...State, completely in its genesis ... is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion of the victorious group of men on a defeated group, and securing itself against revolt from within and attacks from abroad....

...the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating...against revolt from within and attacks from abroad. [1975: 8] A loose association of raiders transformed itself into a permanent, centralized "state" with...

...the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion of the [victor] over the vanquished, and securing itself against revolt from within and attacks from abroad....

...State, completely in its genesis ... is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion of the victorious group of men on a defeated group, and securing itself against revolt from within and attacks from abroad....

...the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating...the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors.15 The claim is that the State came out of conquest and force. As appealing as this may sound...

...the first stages of its existenee, is a soeial institution, foreed by a vietorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion of the vietorious group over the vanquished, and seeuring itself against revolt from within and attaeks from...