POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Political Freedom, Minority Rights

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Joseph Zboralski

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Ability to get what you want, regardless of what others want. "god says so" was how europe was run favor by the majority for government as opposed to a 25-year-old female . "with age comes wisdom: this is considered a traditional way of thinking, charisma, something about someone"s personality that motivates, compels and gets them to listen to you, e. g. Trudeau still had power and authority to have a respectable perspective about decisions though was no longer the prime minister) State - nation - government: related but not synonymous. State: only institution that can use force against the population and take your land. Institutions of political authority given in a country: only the state can take your property take your freedom (incarceration, four components of the state. Population: the state works together without dispute - this leads to a well functioning country the size of the population does not matter (e. g. china has a large population,