Monopoly on violence
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As such, states can resort to coercive means such as incarceration, expropriation, humiliation, and death threats to obtain the population's compliance with its rule and thus maintain order.
Regardless, the state exists wherever a single authority can legitimately authorize violence. fiscal (taxation) and legal capacity (the state's supremacy as sole arbiter of conflict resolution and contract enforcement) Under feudalism no lords, including the king, could claim a monopoly over the use of violence, since their vassals promised to serve them but remained free to exercise power in their fiefdoms