PSC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Supremacy Clause, Concurrent Powers, Connecticut Compromise

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSC 101
• Professor: hawley

Document Summary

Government is the social institution that maintains a monopoly on the legitimate use of deadly violence. The state is the human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. max weber. Select representatives to act on behalf of citizens. Majority tyranny threatens liberty people are irrational and incompetent. Interaction of three categories determines what actions government takes. Johnson, a political actor) political linkages: public opinion and growing electoral power of african americans in the south structural: economic changes had triggered the great migration of. Key ideas in the declaration of independence declaration echoed locke"s second treatise on. Articles of confederation: our first constitution provisions of the articles. The founder"s beliefs about the problems of democracy. * an excess of democracy in the states. * the threat to property rights in the states. What the framers created at the constitutional. Separation of powers and checks and balances.