Unit 1 of Political Science – I (syllabus: Module I — the five definitions of political science and the turn from institutions to power; the State — its definitions from Aristotle to Philimore and its four constituent elements; State distinguished from government; sovereignty — its juristic character, internal and external aspects, the development of the concept through Bodin, Grotius, Hobbes and Bentham, its six characteristics and the federal objection, and the five kinds (titular and real, legal, political, popular, de jure and de facto); Austin’s monistic theory, its six propositions and the criticisms of Maine, Laski and the pluralists; and the origin of the State, with the evolutionary theory and its five factors). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.