ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the individual in his relations with another group, one greater in scope than the others, greater indeed than any other organized group in existence to-day, that is, the political group. The rules taken as a whole that have received sanction and that determine what these relations should be, form what is called civic morals. The family has a head whose powers are sometimes limited by those of a family council. The patriarchal family of the Romans has often been compared to a State in miniature. "The State", says Bluntschli, "must have its domain; the nation demands a country." But the family, at least in many countries, is no less bound to the soil – that is, to some charted area. A French departement sometimes has more inhabitants than many of the City States of Greece and Italy. The State, on the strength of authority, has intervened in fields which by their nature should remain alien to it.
