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Examine the liberal theory of State in contemporary politics.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 20 marks
  • Theories of the State

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For the liberal theory, the state is an artificial and instrumental creation: individuals holding natural rights prior to government consent to it to secure those rights, and it remains legitimate only within that trust. Born in the seventeenth-century revolt against royal absolutism, it still supplies the vocabulary of contemporary politics while its practice is strained…

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  • Core Premises
  • A Theory That Revises Itself
  • Liberal Theory in Contemporary Politics
  • Limits and Critiques
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