ABSTRACT
The state comes into existence insofar as institutions needed to carry out the common functions of the society require, for their continued maintenance, the separation of the power of forcible coercion from the general body of society. In the old German case, there may indeed be a community formed by such rurally scattered family units connected by kinship ties; but while this community structure may serve to unify them, it does not turn them into such a unity. The worker knows only too well and from too long experience that the law is a rod that the bourgeois holds over his head, and he does not bother himself about it unless he has to. In the progress of history conquerors attempt to give a sort of social sanction to their original title derived from brute force, through the instrumentality of laws imposed by themselves. The housing conditions of workers were investigated and attempts made to remedy the most crying evils.
