Who said, ‘The State exists because crime exists in society, otherwise there would be no need of a State’?
(A) Herbert Spencer
(B) J .S. Mill
(C) John Locke
(D) Tocqueville
Correct Answer : Herbert Spencer
Question Asked : SSC CGL Tier-I (Re-Exam 2013), 2014
Explanation : Herbert Spencer in his ‘Social Statics’ (1851) argued that the state is the offspring of evil, bearing about it all the marks of its parentage. It exists because crime exists. It is not strong–or, despotic–when crime is great; there is more liberty–less government–when crime diminishes.
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