The book is a manual-compendium, which contains initial information on state and law. The book is an introductory educational material to a series of manuals published by the Institute of Private Law in accordance with its profile (Civil Law, Real Estate, etc.) ). The manual is based on the revised, according to a different system, the presented and supplemented materials contained in the third edition of the author's work "State and Law. The initial course", as well as on the latest materials of the state-legal life of Russia in recent times. For first-year law students and students of non-legal universities, as well as secondary schools, high school students of general education schools, as well as anyone who seeks to study or get acquainted with the initial ideas about the state, democracy, law, legislation .