[Flaptekst]: »The State« The State is an analysis of some of the fundamental issues of modern political thought from the perspective, not of individuals or subjects, but of the state itself. What, Jasay asks, if we suppose the state to have a will and ends? To answer this question, he traces the logical and historical progression of the state from a modest-sized protector of life and property to an »agile seducer of democratic majorities«.