subject: History of state and law Second part [print this page] History of State and Law, referring to its legal focus, interested in ways to implement the power in society, administrative offices and consolidate their powers and principles, legal institutions - in short, the state as a state organization in the evolution of its forms and principles of activity. Of course, trying to establish the social background of changes in these forms and principles, their real social content, social and historical causes that contributed to these changes, the history of the state and law can not come into contact with the general political history (the history of events), with social history, to study the state life and relationship classes in society - but a special task history of the state and the rights of all this does not directly imply, and would ignore the conditional foreign communications, if the history of society was possible to distinguish one phenomenon from another. In addition, a special task state history and law is important in the first respect: the state as a historical and territorial form is the result of social activity as a state organization such as the power apparatus.
