POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Contract
29 Jan 2018
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Process by which a community selects rulers and empowers them to make decisions, take action to reach goals. Three parts of power - authority, legitimacy, legitimate authority. Authority- the command of the obedience of society"s members by a government. Legitimacy- the exercise of political power in a community in a way that is voluntary accepted by the members of that community- or feeling by people - leaders have the right to rule. Legitimate authority- legal and moral right of government to rule over. Order- often associated with the rule of law. A form of government in which sovereignty resides in the people of the country. John locke- liberal believed that there was a time when human beings lived in a state of nature where man was not bad power of individual is limited. A distinct group of people who share a common background.
