The document summarizes four phenomenological approaches to understanding the superconducting state: (1) the thermodynamics picture based on early experiments, (2) the order parameter picture of the Gorter-Casimir two-fluid model, (3) the electrodynamics picture of the London equations, and (4) the nonlocal electrodynamics model of the Pippard extension to the London equations. It then provides more details on the thermodynamic and Gorter-Casimir two-fluid model approaches.