State

is an organized political community acting under a government. States may be classified as sovereign if they are not dependent on, or subject to, any other power or state. States are considered to be subject to external sovereignty, or hegemony, if their ultimate sovereignty lies in another state. A federated state is a territorial, constitutional community that forms part of a federation. Such states differ from sovereign states, in that they have transferred a portion of their sovereign powers to a federal government
2)is a community of men which possesses an organized authority as the highest source of all force"
is "'a group of human individuals viewed as an organized corporate community over which exists a ruling authority which is recognized as the source of commands legally and, in general, ethically, binding upon the individuals composing the community"

Most political theories of the state can roughly be classified into two categories. The first, which includes liberal or conservative theories, treats capitalism as a given, and concentrates on the function of states in a capitalist society. Theories of this variety view the state as a neutral entity distinct from both society and the economy.

Sources:

⠀ https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-sociology/chapter/government-and-the-state/

⠀ Willoughby, W.W.; An Examination of the Nature of the State, New York, the Macmilian Co., 1922, pp. 3-4.