POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ambrose Bierce, Tag Cloud, Superpower
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Politics: lecture 1 (official: becoming a citizen of a country makes you political. You become a part of the state, which holds power: on the word cloud composed of the canadian charter of rights and freedoms , slide 2 of prof. "s powerpoint: the largest (most frequent) words are canada , Freedom is smaller than offence , which gives an interesting insight to the document itself: the most recent political action of dough ford was to reduce the toronto council members" numbers from 47 to 25, almost half. His reasoning was to reduce taxes, as the taxes contribute to the councilmen"s wages, and to reduce the liberal majority. It was deemed unconstitutional by the supreme court of on. Politics, n the strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. Ambrose bierce: principles are high-minded, concerned less with the self and more with the people; interests are more selfish.