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Systematic study of the state and government. | Political Science |
Govern the relations among individuals; offer constitutional, administrative and international law | Private Laws |
Attention is focused upon methods and techniques used in the actual management of the state affairs by executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. | Public Administration |
Interrelationship of Political Science with other branches of learning: Upon domestic and foreign politics | Geography Geopolitics |
Components of Territory: land mass | Terrestrial |
Smallest state | Vatican |
Largest population | China |
Largest state | Canada |
Governance: the system or manner of government; | Manner of government |
Governance: the act or state of governing a place; | State of governing a place |
Governance: control or authority | Authority |
Signifies the decision of a sovereign state to treat another entity as also being a sovereign state | State recognition |
Possession of unlimited power to make laws. It is the authority by which law has the power to issue commands. | Legal sovereignty |
Sum total of all the influences in a state which lie behind the law. It is roughly defined as the power of the people | Political sovereignty |
Characteristics of Sovereignty:means it exist in the same form forever or for a very long time | Permanence |
Characteristics of Sovereignty:means including everything, so as to be complete comprehensive knowledge of the subject. | Comprehensiveness |
Characteristics of Sovereignty:means possessing unlimited power: having total power and authority | Absoluteness |
Characteristics of Sovereignty:means the state or condition of being separate from others. | Individuality |
Characteristics of Sovereignty:means not to be taken away or impossible to remove or violate the people's imprescriptible rights | Imprescriptibility |
Types of monarchy: one in which the ruler rules by divine right; | Absolute Monarchy |
Types of monarchy: one in which the ruler rules in accordance with a constitution; exemplified in modern-day constitutional monarchies | Limited monarchy |
Types of authoritorian:favoring strict rules and established authority; | Strict and demanding obedience |
Types of authoritorian:belonging to or believing in a political system in which obedience to the ruling person or group is strongly enforced. | Demanding political obedience |
Aristocracy: people of noble families or the highest social class | People of highest social class |
Aristocracy: government of a country by a small group of people, especially a hereditary nobility | Government by elite |
Aristocracy: a state governed by an aristocracy. | State run by elite |
Oligarchy: a small group of people who together govern a nation or control an organization, often for their own purposes; | Small governing group |
Oligarchy: a nation governed or an organization controlled by an oligarchy | Entity ruled by oligarchy |
Oligarchy: government or control by a small group of people | Government by small group |
Forms of Government (relationship between the executive and the legislative branches of the government): the state makes the executive independent from the legislative | Presidential government |
Doctrine and practice of dividing the powers of a government among different branches to guard against abuse of authority. | Separation of Powers |
Seperation of powers: has the power to make laws | Legislative branch |