Is man a political animal ? An elementary starting point for all political theory therefore is the existential fact that members of human species live together whatever may be the elements of instinct habit necessity or choice that induce people to form societies If man is a social animal is he then necessarily a political animal? Aristotle said he is and it has remained a generally accepted truth until recently. But opinion now veers round the belief that man is neither instinctively nor by learning necessarily a political animal. Adherents of this point of view who are now many particularly in the United States of America admit that tew people ever live outside the State