What are the features associated with the modern state

What will be an ideal response?

The modern state is associated with the following:
1. A decline in the legitimacy of traditional forms of political authority such as the rule of a charismatic authority figure, inherited leadership, or religious authority, and an increase in the legitimacy of depersonalized, public governance based on the rule of law.
2. An increase in the central government's sovereignty over carefully delineated territory and a decline of decentralized and overlapping forms of sovereignty such as the traditional system of feudalism.
3. An increase in the organizational complexity of central-government institutions.