State machine

The state apparatus is a system of bodies, organizations and institutions that exercise state power in order to achieve the set goals and fulfill the assigned tasks. Its activities are aimed at developing universally binding rules of conduct, fixing them in legal norms, using them in legal relations, ensuring the effectiveness of sanctions and provided guarantees.

State apparatus and its features

• Is formed in order to realize the goals and tasks facing the state;
• Creates legal norms that are generally binding for execution;
• Has a monopoly on state enforcement;
• The basis for the formation and functioning of the state apparatus is the professional principle, that is, its employees carry out their powers on a professional basis without engaging in other socially useful activities;
• To ensure the implementation of its functions includes state agencies and "material appendages," that is, the police, the army, military units, customs services, etc.

Structure

The functions of the state are enshrined in the constitution and other legislative acts, in which the bodies and their officials who are members of the state apparatus are guided in their activities. The structure of the latter depends on the tasks facing the state. It includes government agencies that carry out regulatory functions for managing affairs in the country; Law enforcement related to the maintenance of law and order and public security; Foreign policy, related to relations with foreign states.

Formation of the state apparatus takes place through the formation of government bodies, whose activities include the implementation of state functions. The most common methods are elections and appointments. The state agency is an independent structural unit of state power, vested with power.

Signs of the state body :

• A complex internal structure, since it consists of divisions and necessarily includes civil servants;
• Financing is made from the state budget;
• Performs public functions, including coordination, regulatory and other forms of management activities in accordance with the competence;
• Accountability to the state authority by its founder.

The state apparatus includes civil servants, that is, persons who are on civil service, whose activities are aimed at ensuring the powers of state bodies. Officials in their composition act on behalf of the state and within their competence, take decisions that are binding on other participants in legal relations. The special place is occupied by the persons occupying the higher state posts. These are the president, ministers, chairmen of the parliament chambers, the prime minister and others who hold office by election.

Substitution of posts in state bodies is carried out mainly by appointment. The state apparatus may also include some state institutions that distribute their activities to other institutions or persons who do not directly obey them. State-owned enterprises are not part of the structure, since although their administrations have the right to make managerial decisions, but only internal, to manage their own activities.

Principles

The state apparatus functions on the basis of general principles enshrined in the constitution. In democratic societies, they include: democracy, law, professionalism, separation of powers, centralism and a number of others.