%0 Journal Article %T Political and Legal Concept of Modern Democratic State %J American Journal of Sociological Research %@ 2166-5451 %D 2012 %I %R 10.5923/j.sociology.20120203.01 %X The paper proposes a political and legal approach to conceptualizing modern democratic state as law-governed, social and secular. It defines legal, institutional, and socio-political characteristics of law-governed, social, and secular state. %K Legal And Political Concept %K State %K Law-Governed %K Social %K Secular %U http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.sociology.20120203.01.html