La legitimidad del Estado a la luz del Estado colombiano, una óptica desde el poder político.

Abstract

The present research intends to make an analysis of the criteria of legitimacy in light of the Colombian State, which have been the factors that have influenced the problems of legitimacy, and which theories with which it could measure that legitimacy; from this point of view it is important to know concepts such as State, legitimacy, sovereignty, political power among others, all from different perspectives, which help to have a much broader vision and to respond to the perception of new realities, In this order of ideas several questions arise that are tried to answer in the present work. What have been the criteria for the legitimacy of the Colombian State? Why and under what justification do people obey the State, convinced of its legitimacy?; to answer these questions, the method of hermeneutics is used, a method that will help to interpret the different concepts such as State, sovereignty, political power, among others, in order to have a clear interpretation of the actions of the State in the face of the reality experienced by the States and in particular the Colombian State, its conditions of legitimacy and the different actors who have been part of or influenced the development and consolidation as a nation state.