reason of state, n.All

Reason of state (n.) grew ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠into police science: a program for knowing and regulating every subject, a secularized pastoral that cares for your happiness to maximize the strength of the state.

Reason of state (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a licence to break every other rule; it is a new rationality of government whose principles come from the state itself, not from wisdom, justice or divine law.