POL 4141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Negative Liberty, Direct Democracy, Positive Liberty

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 4141
• Professor: Tyler Attwood

Document Summary

Pol 4141 b comparative politics: the united states. Note: an executive order is a statement made by the president that carries the weight of law and acts like law, but it is not passed by congress (no direct or formal role played by congress) The 7 key ideas make up the foundation of american political culture, which shapes the way people think about politics and american government. Tea party (example of direct democracy) drew of negative liberty, the. Those who oppose inequality (cid:523)such as the women(cid:495)s marches recently) draw on positive liberty and equality. Eg. the declaration of independence codified individuality because it already existed in the society at the time, but this codification reproduces the very values that it was originally founded upon, even if these values might otherwise have changed. Change is slow in the us system because of the way the government is organized (its structure)