PSCI 1100 Lecture Notes - Social Contract, Public Culture, Natural Selection
12 Feb 2013
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What are some of the issues raised in empirical and normative Catholic church: has a government, has people to follow it, no borders (territory) Vatican city: not subject to italian laws, has followers, is within the borders of another state (italy) Antarctica: has a mass, has a territory, does not have a permanent population, has no fixed government. Somalia: no steady government (often the failed state) Taiwan: china prevents it from becoming its own country (in the un) yet has all other necessities to be a state. Palestine territories: currently a nation, still struggling to become a nation. South ossetia: the russians consider it a state, georgia does not. European union: it"s an economic and political association, some states have given up sovereignty to the union, it"s an association of states. The state consists of government institutions that seek to generate and enforce binding decisions for a certain territory and population.
