POL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bicameralism, Justin Trudeau, Avocation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1101
• Professor: Wolfgang Koerner

Document Summary

Large matters in terms of government are more complicated. State and role of politics within it. Civil society: how we earn our livelihood, family, religion. Nation state: geographic territories with certain resp. , rights and activities. Term is now used loosely without really understanding what the state is or what the limitations are. State is a human community that claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. Right for other inst. to use physical force is only allowed by the state (sole source of the right to use violence) Politics is the striving to share power or influence the distribution of power (either among states or among groups within states) Those who are active in politics strive for power (either as a means for aims (egoistic, self-fulfillment)) (or simply for powers sake) Authority of the eternal yesterday: the morals that are largely sanctified through ancient recognition and traditions (conformity) referred to as traditional authority.