POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Habsburg Monarchy, Napoleonic Wars, Theocracy
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Function of state to act as final authority in disputes, highest authority over monopoly over the legitimate of violence weber. The exec - body that decided that on law that will be adopted, which direction law will go. The legislature members of elected assembly the vote on laws, rules on the law and passes it and makes it into law , in the us congress and senate, law making body. The bureaucracy - unelected portion of the state - e. g. education, healthcare. Canada has one of the best bureaucracies in the world the judiciary is court and the army. Different types of states republican, monarchical, secular, religious. Britain has established church but is deeply secular and is a theocracy where religion infuses the states. Life in a theocracy is hell, particularly for living minorities as the states views anyone not with their religion a threat much more than a secular state would.
