![]() He concluded therefore that the state must be characterized by the means which it, and only it, has at its disposal: " a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory". ![]() Weber argued that the state cannot be characterized by its ends, since there are very few goals which no state would ever seek to achieve, and no particular task which is both exclusive to the state, and also unique to the state. ![]() The monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force is a political concept formalized by the sociologist Max Weber, in his 1918 speech Politik als Beruf ( Politics as a Vocation).
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