POLI 2051 Chapter : Chapter 1 Notes
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Textbook: american government: roots and reform: karen o" conner and larry j. sabato. Government the formal vehicle through which policies are made and affairs of state are conducted. Governments are often a result of trial and error, experiment, compromise, and sometimes bloodshed. The actions of governments are binding on citizens. Citizen member of a political community who, by nature of being born in a particular nation or having become a naturalized citizen is entitled to all of the security and freedoms guaranteed by the government. In exchange citizens must obey the government, its laws, and constitution. Citizens are also expected to support their government through exercising their right to vote, paying taxes, and if they are eligible, submitting themselves to military service. Only governments can legitimately use force to keep order. In text government = the web of formal administrative structures that exist on the national, state, and local levels.
