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Concept of State and Government Flashcards

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Why is Politics a Theory

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Politics is a theory because politics is proven to be not applicable to every individual. As politics serves its purpose of improving’s one life, how one carries it out may or may not be helpful to others.

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Why is Politics a Art

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Politics is an art because of how they strategize and create a plan for a given problem or situation can be considered an art.

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Politics is:

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  1. Theory
  2. Art
  3. Practice of Government
  4. serves as means to improve one’s life
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societal arrangement for enforcing and legislating laws
providing social services (education, public health, welfare) examples are DOH services for public health

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Political Institutions

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a government can be present without a state but a state can’t be present without a government example: the Philippines during Spanish Colonization

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A community of persons permanently occupying a definite portion of territory, having a government of their own to which they render obedience, and enjoying freedom from external or outside control.

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State

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4 theories of an origin of a state

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  1. Divine Right Theory
  2. Necessity or Force Theory
  3. Paternalistic Theory
  4. Social Contract Theory
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the state is a divine creation and the ruler is ordained by God to rule the people.

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Divine Right Theory

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the state was created through force

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Necessity or Force Theory

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state developed from a single nuclear family under the authority of a single parent (e.g North Korea and Monarchy)

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Paternalistic Theory

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state must have been formed by deliberate and voluntary contract among the people to form a society and organize a government for their own good

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Social Contract Theory

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4 elements of state

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  1. People
  2. Territory
  3. Government
  4. Sovereignity
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Refers to the large numbers of inhabitants living within the state.
It must be small enough to be ruled
It must be big enough to be self-sufficient

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People

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also called as the mass population living within the state

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People

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This includes the land over which the state exercises control.
It also includes the rivers and lakes therein, certain areas of the sea which borders on its coasts and the air space above them.
A mass of land where people can permanently reside.

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Territory

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exclusive economic zone:

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200 nautical miles

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Maritime claims:

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measured from claimed archipelagic baselines

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Natural resources:

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gold, copper, chromite, silver, nickel, cobalt

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The islands are divided into three groups:

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Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

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The Luzon Islands include:

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Luzon, Palawan, Mindoro, Marinduque, Masbate, Batanes Islands

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The Visayas Islands include:

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Panay, Negros, Cebu, Bohol, Leyte and Samar.

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The Mindanao Islands include:

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Mindanao and Sulu Archipelago (Basilan , Sulu, Tawi-Tawi)

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The largest island

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Visayas

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lies exactly at the center of the Philippine archipelago.

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The island of Romblon

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The Philippines is considered one of the world’s largest populations having a rank of 13

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This refers to the agency through which the will of the state is formulated, expressed, and carried out.

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Government

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This could be referred as the “administration”

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Government

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Forms of Government may be classified according to:

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  1. Number of persons exercising authority
  2. extent of powers exercised by a central or national government
  3. relationship between executive and legislative branches
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If there were only one person in the world, there would be no need for a government because he could do anything he liked. He could harm nobody, and nobody could harm him.

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  1. The government needs to exist for the benefit of the people.
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it protects lives and property, sets up and enforces rules and laws, settle disputes, and in general advances the physical, economic, social, and cultural well-being of its people.

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  1. Without government there would be no one to administer the affairs of society for the common good.
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Disorder, violence, and insecurity will prevail and such values as truth, freedom, justice, equality, and human dignity which we take for granted cannot be enjoyed.

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Forms of Government

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  1. Monarchy
  2. Oligarchy
  3. Democracy
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known as the “rule of one”

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Monarchy

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It is absolute (dictatorship) if the supreme power is held by one man;
or limited, if the powers of the individual ruler are limited, usually by a written Constitution

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Monarchy

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Aristocracy or the rule of the few

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Oligarchy

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The rule of the many

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Democracy

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It is pure if the people rule themselves directly or Representative (republican), if the people govern themselves indirectly

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Democracy

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one in which political power is exercised by a few privileged class

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Aristocracy

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one in which political power is exercised by a majority of the people

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Democracy

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one in which the will of the State is formulated or expressed directly and immediately through the people in a mass meeting or primary assembly

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Direct or pure democracy

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or one in which the will of the state is formulated and expressed through the agency of a relatively small and select body of persons chosen by the people to act as their representatives

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Indirect, representative or republican democracy

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one in which the control of national and local affairs is exercised by the central or national government

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Unitary Government

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one in which the powers of government are divided between two sets of organs, one for national affairs and the other for local affairs.

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Federal Government

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one in which the state confers upon the legislature the power to terminate the tenure of office of the real executive

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Parliamentary

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one in which the state makes the executive constitutionally independent of the legislature as regards his policies and acts

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Presidential Government

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is exercised by the government under the leadership of the president.

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Executive Power

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is vested in both the government and the two-chamber congress – the Senate (the upper chamber) and the House of Representatives (the lower chamber).

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Legislative Power

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is vested in the courts with the Supreme Court of the Philippines as the highest judicial body.

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Judicial Power

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The supreme power of the state to command and enforce obedience from its people as well as to have freedom from foreign control.

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Sovereignity

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*It could be manifested internally through its freedom to rule within its territory.

*Externally through its freedom to carry out its activities without control by other states.

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Sovereignity

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an agency through which the state expresses its will; its main purpose is the promotion of common good or public welfare

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Government

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an ethnic concept; a group of people bound by common social and cultural origin

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Nation

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a political concept

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State

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a basic force on the political process and structuring society.

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Political Power

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