What methods has the state developed to aid them in maintaining power and authority?

Politics, Power and Authority

Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions.

Power identifies the ability to accomplish an authorized goal, by way either of compliance or of obedience.

Authority it indicates political legitimacy, which grants and justifies the right to exercise power of government.

"social stratification refers to the way people are ranked and ordered in society. in western societies, stratification is primarily seen and understood as a result of socioeconomic status, which produces a hierarchy in which access to resources, and possession of them, increases from the lower to the upper strata"

answer; /// i believe the correct answer is general act charters;