@Olivier5,
People have lost sight of what this means, again trivial but necessary Knowledge for the Millenials growing up:
Quote:
Res Publica
Res publica is a Latin phrase, loosely meaning 'public affair'. It is the root of the word 'republic', and the word 'commonwealth' has traditionally been used as a synonym for it; however translations vary widely according to the context. 'Res' is a nominative singular Latin noun for a substantive or concrete thing – as opposed to 'spes', which means something unreal or ethereal – and 'publica' is an attributive adjective meaning 'of and/or pertaining to the state or the public'. Hence a literal translation is, 'the public thing/affair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Res_publica
Some think the State is unnecessary and bad by definition and often confuse the State being ill and weakened and corrupted with the State being omnipresent which is not...poor thinking...a strong State is invisible but present while a weakened one creates much fuss with no results!...
Managing public affairs emerged with the first cities since man is man and even in the hunter-gatherer tribe there was management of the common good. The necessity of the State as Law and Order is the basis for the civilized social contract that we do with each other to prevent natural abrupt regulation from Nature.
The function of the State if no other is to make a softer transition between Natural selection and ecosystem self-regulation and the regulation we deem necessary to cooperate as a group efficiently.