POLITICAL SCIENCE "POLIS" (City - State) GOVERNMENT

- use to indicate greek city states like classical Athens - agency/machinery of the state
1. Knowledge & understanding of the state & - group of person w/ public authority
government Purpose of the Government
2. Association of human being in political community 1. Advance Public Welfare - education, housing,
3. Relationship of: man - group;; man - state; state - health, protection, justice
state 2. Consequence of Absence - anarchy, chaos,
disorder, lawless violence
PETROPOLIS (Imperial city of Brazil) - town in thr state of
Rio de Janeiro ACROPOLIS "High City" (greek) "Citadel" FORMS of GOVERNMENT
(english) 1. MONARCHY - single person
- elevated ground to build a new settlement SHAH (Iran) TSAR (Russia) PHARAOH (Egypt)
METROPOLIS "Mother City" - a clustered network of KAISER (Germany) EMIR (Kuwait)
cities a. ABSOLUTE - all the power execute, law maker, judge
b. LIMITED - limited/restricted power (limits constitution)
SCOPE OF POL. SCI.
1. POLITICAL THEORY - doctrine of the state, its origin, 2. DIARCHY "DUMVIRATE"
form, behaviour & purpose - 2 person ruling (Peter & Ivan - Russia)
2. PUBLIC LAW - constitutional law, international law TANDEMOCRACY
3. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - methods & techniques in - alliance bet 2 political & militar leaders (Putin &
the management of the state & administrative Medveder)
agencies 3. TRIARCHY "TRIUMVIRATE"
4. JURISPRUDENCE - analysis of existibg legal system - 3 persons ruling (Julius Ceasar, Pompei, Marcus
Crasus)
STATE - a community of person occupying a teritory 4. ARISTOCRACY "OIGARCHY" - social/economic elite
Vatican City - smallest state ELEMENTS of STATE 5. DEMOCRACY - all people have equal say in the
Pe Ter Go So decision
1. People - refers to inhabitants/citizens FOR, OF, BY - the people
2. Teritory - refers to land, sea & airspace a. DIRECT/PURE - people make decision by themselves
3. Government - agency through w/c will of state is b. INDIRECR/REPRESENTATIVE - elected individuals
formulated represent people
4. Sovereignity - supreme power of state to command 6. GERONTOCRACY - rule by old people
& enforce obedience to its will
EXTENT of POWERS
ORIGIN of STATE 1. UNITARY GOVERNMENT
Di N Pa So - power concentrated in the hands of a
1. Divine Right - state is a divine creation central/national government (philippines)
2. Necessity/Force Theory - great wariors imposed their 2. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
will upon weak - group of member (state) are bound by a covenant
3. Paternallistic Theory - enlargement of family sovereignity is divided between the central authority &
4. Social Contract Theory - deliberate & voluntary political units (states) (USA)
compact among people to form society
Relationship
STATE EXECUTIVE & LEGISLATIVE
- political, legal, juristic concept Presidential - executive (President) independent from
- 1 state may contain many nation legislative
- cannot exist w/o government PARLIAMENTARY - legislative may terminate the tenue
- whole concept of executive - cabinet is responsible to the legislative

NATION
- ethnic/racial concept
- 1 nation may contain many state
- can exist w/o state
- partial concept