2. The distinction between the State and government is not real. Both are the same. The State does not command, it serves and is a public or social service organization. 3. The State is one among other groups which man needs to fulfil the purposes of his life. His allegiance is, accordingly, not unified. It is divided. and diffused. His allegiance to the State may conflict with his allegiance to other associations, and may even take priority over his loyalty to the State. 4. The State is not in any way a mysterious formation with supernatural or metaphysical characteristics. Omnipotent sovereignty is not true to facts. It his not unitary, but federal. 3. The State can serve its purpose by and through good-will alone. It cannot destroy associations and groups as it cannot create them. Nor can it enforce its will against the opposition of associations and groups within it. Since the State expresses the will or purpose of the human beings within it, it does not enjoy any necessary pre-eminence for its demands. as Laski puts the State is only one of the many associations to which the individual happens to belong, "politically there is no such thing as sovereignty at all he concludes.