POSC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oligarchy, Supremacy Clause

• School: CSULB
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POSC 100
• Professor: jared perkins

Document Summary

Politics- the process by which competing interests determine who gets what, when and how. Policy- the intentional action by government to achieve a goal. An institution authorized to exercise force to control human behavior 2. The institutions and processes through which public policies are made for society. Democracy- system of government in which power is vested in the people and vested in the people. National supremacy centralized executive chosen by legislature, judiciary chosen by legislature: the new jersey plan. Weak chief executive with real executive authority vested in congressional committees. National supremacy: key points of the great (ct) compromise. Over 90% of slaves resided in ga, md, nc, sc and va. Fear of losing he support of these states. Issue was one of representation, not of ethics. Presidency, congress and supreme court were majority southern most of the time: conflict over the executive. Small states worried they would be ignored: the electoral college.