Q:

Which one of the following best defines the term ‘State’?

• 1
  A community of persons residing permanently in a definite territory without any external control and having an organised government.
• 2
  A politically organised people of a definite territory having the right to govern themselves, to maintain law and order, to protect their natural rights and to secure their means of livelihood.
• 3
  A number of persons having lived in a definite territory for a very long time with their own culture, tradition and system of government.
• 4
  A society residing permanently in a definite territory having a central authority and an executive answerable to the central authority and an independent judiciary.