POL 101W Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Collective Memory, Jus Sanguinis, British Association For Immediate Care
13 Jan 2018
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The state = an independent, sovereign, self-governing political community that can make binding rules to its population. The government = the set of institutions that makes decisions and oversees their implementation on behalf of the state for a particular period of time. The basics of the state monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a territory. the state is a type of policy that is an organized political community living under a single system of government. States may or may not be sovereign e. g federal states are members of federal union and may have only partial sovereignty, but are, nonetheless, states. They must not con ict with any other federal laws or treaties. Shared powers include: e. g. raise taxes, provide for public welfare, criminal justice, borrow money, charter banks, build roads: both can raise taxes, build roads, and borrow money, infrastructure, federalism is the sharing of power. (federalism is it)
