Doctrinal concepts of obligations of the state: the formulation of the problem

Abstract

System analysis of national and foreign sources of philosophy, law, from the time of antiquity to our days, shows that the issue of the institution of state responsibilities, despite its exceptional importance, has not become the subject of complex fundamental research. Separate generalizations about the duties of the state can be identified in the writings of those scientists who explored the forms of government, the state structure,  the place and role of the head of state in the system of state-power coordinates, interstate relations. It is established that the doctrinal concept of the state's duties is meaningful, logical, generalized provisions of a non-normative nature, produced by scientists in the aspect of such a social phenomenon as the state's duty. The doctrinal concepts of state duties are formed around certain upward ideas, through the prism of which not only the expediency, significance, necessity or usefulness of the existence of the state, the state system as a whole, the practical necessity of assigning a number of socially significant duties to the state, but also the mentally- state and its essence. It is suggested to highlight the following doctrinal concepts of state duties: the concept of personified-representative duties of the state; the social concept of state duties; positivist-legal concept of state duties; concept of broad responsibilities of the state.