Book III.1-13: city and citizen: definitions, good man vs. good citizen, classification of constitutions, conceptions of political justice Books III.14- IV: types of constitutions: kingship, aristocracy, democracy, oligarchy, constitutional government, tyranny; the best constitution (a) for most human beings, (b) relative to specified conditions ". . . we will perhaps grasp better what sort of political system is best. . ." Book V: the causes of the destruction and preservation of constitutions "Then let us study the collected political systems, to see from them what sorts of things prese...

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The history of government is the history of the formal institutions and procedures which create and govern legal authority. The history of politics is the history of the ways men have used such institutions and the struggles for authority between rivalries, factions, and agencies of government. Along with obscure definition and focus, Bailyn argues that, "Politics in the colonial period is a subject peculiarly difficult to locate within the broader dimensions of American history. ... After the upheavals of the seventeenth century the British established liberty as the principal goal of its con...

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However, the ideal constitution Plato proposes to ward off the slide into democracy and despotism is fraught with theoretical problems that make it thoroughly unjust and virtually incapable of producing a flawlessly just and otherwise virtuous state comprised of happy individuals. On the other hand, democracy would not be much better, and has been proven, not only by Plato but also in history, to fall short of being a just political structure... "These, then, were the obstacles I foresaw when, in spite of my fears, truth compelled me to declare that there will never be a perfect state or cons...

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The Constitution lays out what those liberties are. The Constitution gives every individual protection of their rights. ... The Constitution would have never been ratified if amendments to protect individual liberties from the government had not been added. ... History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. ...

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After his death, "Behemoth", written in 1668 by Hobbes, which was about political history of the period of the Long Parliament (1640-60), was published. ... These events established the supremacy of Parliament over the crown in the British constitution. ... To conclude, Thomas Hobbes was one of the most significant philosophers of the history. ...

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Throughout the history, authorities, including democratic countries, have been constantly trying to distort the reality in order to prevent from being overthrown. ... Although the government removed it from the history and prohibit all the access of information about it, there must be witnesses and family of the victims out there who knew the truth. ... Nowadays, most countries have constitution to preserve basic human rights, though they also manipulate the truth and justify the wrongs, even in liberal western countries. ...

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If individuals are superior creating constitutions and institutions, them the populace is equally superior to an individual when it comes to maintaining the institutions once they have been established"(p.157). ... If high power individuals want success then they must listen to the will of the citizens and if not, then like many times in history change will be brought....

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The Role of Women in Politics By failing to address the gender bias that discounts the contributions of women, many development policies and programs intended to alleviate impoverishment actually are making the problem worse. There are developmental groups in both the private and public sphere th...

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