CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Totalitarianism, Harm Reduction, Authoritarianism
30 Sep 2016
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The state is an institution that claims the exclusive right to exercise force in a given territory through the use of the police and armed forces. Important when talking about failed states monarchies were absolute. Monarchy : transfers power from generation to generation within a single family. Democracy : generally is representative rather than fully participatory. Authoritarianism : is a political system that denies popular participation in government. Totalitarianism : is a political system that extensively regulates people"s lives societies tend to be democracies. Used to feed the poor but then became too expensive. Male work force sent to fight the crusades. Labour was depleting: go to work or go to jail (torture you) The vagrancy laws constituted an abundance of cheap labor to england"s ruling elite, during a period when serfdom was breaking down and the pool of labor was depleting. Loitering is the modern day vagrancy laws. British common law is major source of law in canada.
