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......What is a state?' At present this is a disputed question. Some say that the state has done a certain act; others, no, not the state, but the oligarchy or the tyrant. And the legislator or statesman is concerned entirely with the state; a constitution or government being an arrangement of the inhabitants of a state. (Politics,1) An important clue when trying to understand the concept of state would be to follow Aristotles judgment that the state is composed of citizens
Again we are acquainted with a new term, that of citizen, which, as the former terms, is also divisive. It owes its divisiveness to the fact that one who is a citizen in certain circumstances might not be a citizen in different conditions: He who is a citizen in a democracy will often not be a citizen in an oligarchy.(Politics, 1)
It would take more than for one to reside in a community to make him or her part of the respective community. Aristotles citizen would have to be one without any faults whatsoever in order for him or her to become a citizen in the first place. The ancient philosophers idea of a citizen is that a typical

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