General Government

People and governments can gain legitimacy through rational-legal processes, traditional processes, and individual charisma. Legitimacy can be kept through performance legitimacy, where people may believe in your right to rule if you rule well; have economic growth, increase nationalism, and to be politically stable. However, it’s easy for a leader to lose legitimacy. Failure to protect the public from the economic instability, unable to provide opportunities for the people, and overall general…

need a rising level of government expenditure and tax cut. But liberals and conservatives are on two front regarding how to allocate the government expenditure in economy. While the liberals…

major decisions in their communities. In comparing both societies any similarities if any, will be discussed. Athens differed from other city states of its time due to the fact that it practiced democracy as their government. In order for a citizen of Athens to participate in their government, he had to have the following attributes: be a free male native, born of Athenian parents and at least 18 years old. Once those requirements were met, the level of political and military status of each…

Every man an enemy, at war, and unsafe—such is the state of nature, as described by Thomas Hobbes. Yet in his work, Leviathan, Hobbes argues that man is not doomed to this state. He can escape. To do so, every man makes a covenant with every other to transfer their rights to an almighty Leviathan, the sovereign of their newly founded commonwealth, with the expectation that the Leviathan’s combined strength will better preserve their lives. However, this expectation does not follow from Hobbes’…

different structures of power, different favored types of government, and different types of classes. Where Plato bases his ideas off of a faux society, Aristotle uses examples of past civilizations to discuss several different theories and explanations. Though Aristotle was a student of Plato, he had a very different approach to the ideal state than his teacher. According to Plato in his piece of work, The Republic, everything decays. Government is not exempt from this, which is the basis of…

The provision that John Winthrop discusses when he argues that the government will endanger liberty is an uncompounded republic. He points out that the government intended to make everyone in the country equal by subjecting them to the same regulations and policies, but this would not be effective. He went on to exclaim that the new legislature made all individuals equal regardless of race, and this would somewhat be a violation to humankind. He specifically pointed out that introducing alone…

nation, it is an opportunity to create a government that best represents the people. He reminds people of the flaws in Britain’s government and all their attempts to control America by taxing them irrationally. Thomas Paine was so successful in convincing the American’s to declare independence by appealing to their emotions, and disproving arguments that support living under the British rule. What makes Paine’s argument so compelling…

Me, Myself, and Time In Anthem Ayn Rand writes the book in a totalitarian society as to which they eliminated technology to prevent something from happening again. In the totalitarian society the people have little control over rather or not having technology is superior, because everything is controlled by the state. The little mention of technology in the book foreshadows a meaning that the technology was once the cause of the end of the world, which explains the totalitarian society. In Ayn…

Should the government be able to access the metadata of Australians? The Australian legal system is meant to provide the community with safety, a way of improving our protection is by using data retention. Data retention is usually used for any crime related offences. The information from the metadata which the government retrieves is basically who, when and where. The information obtained is: who was it sent to, when was it sent and where it was sent from. Leaving just the core concern, the…

Danielle Broder POL 240 Fall 2015 A Review of The Potential for Public Empowerment through Government Organized Participation by Neal D. Buckwalter. Section One: This article develops a far better theoretical understanding of the linkage between the processes and results related to government-organized public participation, Moreover as its potential to convey power to citizens in guiding administrative decisions. Special focus is given to those factors that form the development and maintenance…