# The state

A state claims the right to make rules over a territory. How it gets that right, and what limits it, is what political philosophers from Hobbes to Locke to Confucian thinkers argued about in different ways.

Connects to:
- [Society](https://mapideas.org/i/society)
- [Constitution](https://mapideas.org/i/p_const)

Sources:
- [Wikipedia: State (polity)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(polity))
- [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Political Philosophy](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/political-philosophy/)

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