PAPM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Highwayman

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Public Affairs and Policy Management
• Course: PAPM 1000
• Professor: Marc Hanvelt

Document Summary

Predictability, security for political society (certain signs security want, certain individual rights want freedom to order life) Dispersion of power -> [power] = dangerous. Increase risk of if something will go wrong and what will happen (will be much worse), when all power in hands of indv. Or small power if misuse or for own purposes. Division of power: legislative (make law), executive (put law into effect), federative. Even though thinks many types of commonwealths, thinks should be (kinda) like ours today: elected legislature (from population), meet reg. intervals and make law (but don"t need to make all the time) Join federative and exec for head of state (permanent body) Times when legislative not sitting and law needed (need action) Executive: prerogative discretion (power to act w/out sanction of law or against laws in place, at least in some cases) If monarch (exec and leg fused) really worrisome (cause prerogative too)