ABSTRACT
People who act or who judge the actions of others in accordance with this perception are said to be endowed with political sense. If political ability is necessary to govern the State or to lead a party, it is likewise necessary to rule one’s own family, to establish and cultivate relationships of love and friendship; and it is even necessary toward the animals people use and toward things, granted that things, too, obey laws and in their own way have life and feeling. The word “State” is meant to indicate all the institutions, customs and laws which govern the actions of man, and more precisely the whole body of fundamental and constitutional laws. In apparent contradiction to the theory that the essence of the State is only political action, and that political actions are useful actions, stands the widely accepted view that the origin and the government of the State are to be attributed to force.
