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Government and Law: Trixie C. Pepito
Government and Law: Trixie C. Pepito
Government and Law: Trixie C. Pepito
and Law
Trixie C. Pepito
BS Accountancy 3
Politics
as long as we need to have some
social organization, we need
government and POLITICS is precisely
the theory, art, and practice of the
government.
We need people who will be vested with
or of governing a country.
In countries where government rules well for
Political institutions
are societal arrangements for:
legislating and enforcing laws (Congress);
and
providing for social services like education
(DepEd), public health and welfare (DOH),
distributing public funds (DBM), collecting
taxes (BIR), conducting foreign affairs (DFA),
and deciding on issues of war and peace
(AFP, PNP, etc.)
A State is
a structure that has the legal authority or right
Government
is an essential element of the state.
The often-quoted Preamble of the Philippine
Governments are
empowered to establish and regulate the
Laws
are formalized norms which are enacted by
Congress
Both Houses deliberate upon the Senate
The President
Constitutionality of Laws
The interpretation of whether a law is
Supreme Court
Kataas-taasang Hukuman ng Pilipinas
Court of Appeals
Hukuman ng Apelasyon ng Pilipinas
Ombudsman
Tanodbayan ng Pilipinas
Sandiganbayan
Peoples Advocate
Political Ideology
An ideology is a system of values, ideas,
Forms of Government
Since Aristotles time, the forms of
government envisioned by different
political ideologies have been the
following:
Autocracy
Oligarchy
Democracy
Socialism
Autocracy
is a government in the hands of a
An autocratic
government
is ruled a king, a monarch, a despot or a
dictator.
The present-day autocracy is known as
totalitarian a government or a state in
which the life and actions of every
individual, as well as those of every
enterprise, are controlled by a dictator.
Ex: The dictatorial regime of the late President
Marcos under the guise of constitutional
authoritarianism.
Oligarchy
is a government in which power is in
Democracy
is a form of government by the
Socialism
is a form of government wherein
Absolute power
corrupts.
Power can be used as an end in itself, or
End of Presentation
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