Who was the first to use the term ‘State’?
(A) Hobbes
(B) Plato
(C) Aristotle
(D) Machiavelli
Correct Answer : Machiavelli
Question Asked : SSC Graduate Level Tier-I Exam 2013
Explanation : Machiavelli has been credited with formulating for the first time the “modem concept of the state”. The term ‘10 stato’ appears widely in Machiavelli’s writings, especially in The Prince, in connection with the acquisition and application of power in a coercive sense.
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