The article presents the results of research and studies in the area of traditions and conditions of the political authorities control over the armed forces in the centuries, that is, from the beginning of the founding of the first human communities in the form of groups of hunter-gatherers to modern times. Research methods used in the work are the method of analysis and criticism of the literature, the method of analysis and logical construction and analogue transfer method. In these methods the method of deductive reasoning has been included. The result of the work undertaken is to present relations taking place between the authorities and civil violence and preventing their possible intervention in politics and attempts to seize power.