While a political system is necessary, the ways in which it responds to the above two questions are not predetermined

While a political system is necessary, the ways in which it responds to the above two questions are not predetermined

Chapter 12 — The government • 12.01 — The political system • Paragraph 5 • §12.01.05.00

Although a political system should be considered natural, the actual ways in which it responds on any given occasion to the questions of who and how are anything but. All political systems are invented. They are the product of the human intellect, of human ideas and thoughts. While the existence of a political system is necessary for any state, the ways in which it responds to the above two questions are not predetermined, and nor do such systems make linear progress towards any preordained end—but are simply the result of need and opportunity.

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