(2) Society is prior to State:Society is rooted in human nature. As social animals people naturally enter into social relationships and form society. The birth of society took place in the earliest period of history. State also has a very long history behind it and yet, everyone agrees, it came after the birth of society. The need for protecting the social relationships is the need for law and order led to the birth of the State. State had its birth after the evolution of society into a territorially settled society of people.