PLS 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Electoral College, Connecticut Compromise, Jim Crow Laws

• School: MSU
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PLS 100
• Professor: Rachel Schutte

Document Summary

13:30: a constitution specifies institutions that are needed to run a civilization within these institutions certain rights are specified and often people have different institutions, there are fundamental institutions or institutions that have always been with us: Institutions: structures that governs our behaviors, i. e rules, norms, culture. Who gets what and who is left out: fundamental institutions: Government head/bicameral congress/judiciary/family/social/educational/ marriage/ military/ religion/ civic private and planned economies: types of institutions, public ( collective): government ( collect and distribute $), marriage (legal rights, private: economics (banking and inherence), sports (competition) Boss, parent, teacher, religious leader and president: each one ascribes a particular behavior-hence if we know the all institutions a person belongs to we could predict their behavior, this argument implies that ( most) people conform to institutions. Unconformity is not wearing a wedding ring when you are married. ( hard to share a life but expected to) 7: purpose of legal division of and protection of private property.