Origin of State Theories
The use of threats, violence, and intimidation, the modern state came into being.
What is Force Theory?
The governments responsibility to fulfill the governeds' will.
What did John Locke believe?
All men are naturally born in a state of perfect freedom, equal and independent to act how they want to. (Natural rights)
The form of government is often characterized by a single leader/small group of leaders with unlimited power.
What is a dictatorship?
a type of economy where products, prices, and services are determined by the market, not the government
What is Free Enterprise System?
The state evolved from early family/tribes based on job specialization.
What is Evolutionary Theory?
The government is not obligated to fulfill the will of the governed.
What is Dictatorship?
Believed in a strong government based on a reason
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
There is only one level of government, local governments exist to do the bidding.
What is the Unitary system?
The body of fundamental laws setting out the principals, structures, and processes of a government.
What is Social Contract theory?
Voluntary agreement between two or more parties that benefit everyone.
What is the difference between direct and indirect democracy?
Direct: Citizens are primarily creating policy on their own.
Indirect: Elected officials govern on behalf of the citizens
Who wrote the Social Contract? in 1762
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What is Federal System?
The power to interpret a law, to determine its meaning or to settle disputes that arise within the society.
What is Judicial Power?
What is Divine Right theory?
The idea that higher being created a state by endowing certain people with gifts.
What is an Oligarchy?
When a group of people control the government.
The enlightenment thinker who wrote about the importance of separation of powers in the government in "The Spirit of the Laws."
Who is Charles Montesquieu?
What is a confederation?
Having supreme power within its own territory; neither subordinate nor responsible to any other authority.
Sovereign
The 4 Origins of State Theory
What is Force, Divine right, Evolutionary, and Social contract theory?
What is an Autocracy
When one person had total control. (usually dictatorship)
Who are "Philosophes"?
What is the difference between a presidential system and a parliamentary system?
In the presidential system the executive is separate and independent, in the parliament the legislature chooses the exec. who then serves at the pleasure of the legis.
All of the many goals that a government pursues in all of the many areas of human affairs in which it is involved.
What is Public Policy?