POLB50Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Constitution Of The United Kingdom, Ethnocentrism, Letters Patent
23 Oct 2017
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Essay: 6 pages, 12pt, 2. 5cm margins, 1st due oct 29, 2nd nov 19th. Direct democracy: everyone gathers together and makes decisions (voting) Communism: to each according to their need, equal and equitable distribution in society, everyone is the sam. Theocracy: organized around religious conviction, clerics are authoritative interpreters saying what is allowed/not allowed. Facism: combo of militarism, nationalism, ethnocentrism, nazism. Just one government runs all, not by provinces. Congressional system: elected senate, head of state, president. Aspects of canada: canada has a lot of geography, size of it is exaggerated, railway big achievement for canada, resources and distribution of them. Settlement: natives arrived in na c. 15-20 thousand years ago, french settlement: jean cabot (1497) and cartier (1534) arrive early, canada is a settler society, different groups arrived at different times: natives, then french, english, etc. Americanism: 1. 6 bil $ of trade between cd and us- economy, heavily influenced in culture, us militarism is staggering, cdn is nothing.
