POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Elitism, Communitarianism, Proletariat
4 Oct 2015
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Sovereignty: controlling the territory, enforcing the laws collecting taxes, and so on. The first sovereign state fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Replacing the feudal societies where authority had been shared between the aristocracy (emperors, kings, princes, dukes, etc. ) and the roman catholic church. C. relatively allows the economic market to operate unhindered. For such a state, the main duty is to protect the individual"s rights to life, liberty, and property against any threat, external or internal. Emphasizing the individual"s right to private property, the night-watchman model continues to be popular with libertarians. States can be defined by the degree of how their political leaders are subject to the will of the people. Development (oecd) mention that their governments are effective to the people whom they represent. Zedong and north korea under kim jong-un: the rise of totalitarianism is strongly connected with the introduction of new communication technologies.
