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{{Short description|Theory of political philosophy}} {{Original research|date=January 2023}} {{Conservatism sidebar}} The [[family]] as a model for the organization of the [[State (polity)|state]] is a theory of [[political philosophy]]. It explains the structure of certain kinds of state in terms of the structure of the family (as a model or as a claim about the historical growth of the state), or it attempts to justify certain types of state by appeal to the structure of the family. The first known writer to use it (certainly in any clear and developed way) was [[Aristotle]], who argued that the natural progression of human beings was from the family via small communities to the [[polis]]. Many writers from ancient times to the present have seen parallels between the family and the forms of the state. In particular, [[Monarchy|monarchists]] have argued that the state mirrors the [[patriarchy|patriarchal]] family, with the people obeying the [[Monarch|king]] as children obey their father.
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