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who, what, when, why, how
authoritative allocation of values |
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| system of government and politics |
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| institution which successfully upholds its domain to the exclusive regulation of the legitimate use of physical force in enforcing its rules with a given territory. |
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| Power/authority/influence |
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| legitimate power; ability to control others behavior |
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| popular acceptance of authority by governing law |
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Rule of Law
Traditions/customs
Charismatic citizen |
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| dictatorship/authoritarianism/totalitarianism |
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| government ruled by an individual |
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| monarchy/aristocracy/american classless society |
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| sovereignty invested in one person |
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| theocracy; 1st amendment religion clauses establish and free exercise |
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| immediately divine guidance |
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direct: NE Town Meeting; maximum participant of citizens
indirect: representation through representatives of citizens |
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| Procedural and substantive democracy |
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| democracy in which the people or citizens of the state have less influence than in traditional liberal democracies |
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| a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them. |
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| the liberty of an individual to do his or her will freely except for those restraints imposed by law to safeguard the physical, moral, political, and economic welfare of others. |
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| Where the People give permission to be ruled in order for them to be protected |
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| legitimacy of the state is created and sustained by the will or consent of its people, who are the source of all political power. |
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| ordinary: half of votes plus one |
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| minority/individual rights |
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| protected from the majority in supreme court |
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| civil liberties/political liberty/bill of rights |
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| freedoms that provide an individual specific rights |
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| political equality, Baker v. Carr, one person one vote |
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| granting equal citizenship to all members of the state,and also, to ensure conditions that allow the citizens to participate in the affairs of the state |
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| equal protection by due process of law; birthright |
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| traditional orientation of the citizens of a nation toward politics, affecting their perceptions of political legitimacy. |
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| a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work. |
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