ABSTRACT
In accordance with the mode of construction, the theory is divided into two major parts. The first one, the intrinsic part, comprises the empirical generalizations—all of the axioms, postulates, transformational statements, and theorems. The second part, the extrinsic, comprises definitions of the key terms in the empirical generalizations, the referential formulas, stipulations of requisite kinds of data, and some procedural matters pertaining to tests of the theory. Virtually everything in a sociological theory's extrinsic part is likely to entail a problem or give rise to an issue; but rhetoric is alien to that part, and the constituent commentaries should be made solely with a view to clarification. A country is a politically sovereign, autonomous, and unified territorial unit in that a particular set of inhabitants and only that set make decisions as to military actions by the inhabitants and coercive control attempts concerning who and what may cross the unit's boundary.
