POLS 110 Study Guide - Final Guide: Parliamentary Sovereignty, Jean Bodin, Witenagemot
12 Apr 2013
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Governance: the process of decision-making, regulation and enforcement. Government: the institutions that human beings have creased to undertake the process of governance, the state . Stateless societies= no continuous organization, no institutionalization, no codification of rules, no monopoly on use of force, no classes, no separation of governors from governed. Socially and politically reproduce itself with each generation. Supreme political authority: who is entitled to command and who is obligated to obey. With the emergence of supreme political authority came sovereignty. Sovereignty emerged in europe (1576), grew out of the contradictions of the feudal way or organizing political authority. Religious, economic, military and intellectual changes produce radical shift in beliefs and practices. Religious- clashes between pope and local authorities, no fear, protestantism. Military- new weapons, feudal fortresses no longer safe. Intellectual- rebirth of classical roman and greek ideas about the world (renaissance), authority is not divine, printing press.
