Politics

Question 1

Identification: It is an agency through which the will of the state is formulated, expressed and realized.

Answer 1

Government

Question 2

Differentiate Government and Governance

Answer 2

Governance - is the concrete activity that reproduces a formal or informal organization
Government – organization/agency

Question 3

Identification: This is coupled with theory of check and balances It signifies that government should have three branches with separate functions and powers resulting to co-equal and independent. This also tell that power should be check to a power.

Answer 3

Separation of Powers

Question 4

Identification: He originally suggested the separation of powers in his treatise on Politics.

Answer 4

Aristotle

Question 5

Identification: This system supplements the system of separation of powers. The purpose is to safeguard the liberty of the individual.

Answer 5

Check and Balances

Question 6

Identification: The body of rules and principles in accordance with which the power of the sovereignty are regularly exercised.

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Constitution

Question 7

Identification: This branch of government carries out the laws. It is composed of the President and the Vice president who are elected by popular vote and serve a term of six years.

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Executive Branch

Question 8

Identification: This branch of government is authorized to make laws, alter, and repeal them through the power vested in the Philippine Congress. This institution is divided into the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Answer 8

Legislative Branch

Question 9

Identification: This branch of government evaluates laws. It holds the power to settle controversies involving the rights that are legally demandable and enforceable.

Answer 9

Judiciary Branch

Question 10

What are the functions/significance of government?

Answer 10

• Foreign Affairs
• Military Defense
• Maintenance of Domestic Order
• Administration of Justice
• Provision for a regular and fair elections
• Provision for public goods and services
• Promotion of economic growth and development
• Poverty alleviation
• Social Justice
• Protection of individual rights

Question 11

Enumeration: What are the forms of government as to number of persons exercising sovereign powers?

Answer 11

• Monarchy
• Aristocracy
• Democracy

Question 12

Enumeration: What are the forms of government as to extent of powers exercised by the central or national government?

Answer 12

• Unitary Government

* Federal Government

Question 13

Enumeration: What are the forms of government as to relationship between the executive and legislative branches of the government?

Answer 13

• Parliamentary Government

* Presidential Government

Question 14

Identification: The form of government wherein the supreme and final authority is in the hand of a single person.

Answer 14

Monarchy

Question 15

Identification: This type of Monarchy is when the ruler rules by divine right.

Answer 15

Absolute Monarchy

Question 16

Identification: This type of Monarchy is when the ruler rules in accordance with the constitution.

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Limited Monarchy

Question 17

Identification: The form of government wherein political power is exercised by a few privileged class.

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Aristocracy

Question 18

Identification: The form of government wherein political power is exercised by a majority of the people.

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Democracy

Question 19

Identification: This type of Democracy is when will of the state is expressed directly through mass meeting.

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Pure Democracy

Question 20

Identification: This type of Democracy is when the will of the state is formulated or expressed through the agency of a small selected body, chosen by the people to act as their representative.

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Republican Democracy

Question 21

Identification: The form of government wherein control of national and local government is exercised by the central or national government.

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Unitary Government

Question 22

Identification: The form of government wherein powers of government are divided for national and the other for local affairs.

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Federal Government

Question 23

Identification: The form of government wherein the state confers upon the legislature the power to terminate the tenure of office.

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Parliamentary Government

Question 24

Identification: The form of government wherein the executive is constitutionally independent of the legislature.

Answer 24

Presidential Government

Question 25

Identification: It may be defined as that branch of public law which treats as constitutions, their nature, formation, amendment and interpretation.

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Constitutional Law

Question 26

Enumeration: What are the kinds of institution as to origin or history?

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* Conventional/Enacted | * Cumulative/Evolved

Question 27

Enumeration: What are the kinds of institution as to form?

Answer 27

* Written | * Unwritten

Question 28

Enumeration: What are the kinds of institution as to manner of amending them?

Answer 28

* Rigid/Inelastic | * Flexible/Elastic

Question 29

Identification: It is derived from the latin word “preambulare”, w/c means “to walk before”. It is a prologue or introduction of the Constitution.

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Preamble

Question 30

Identification: It is a systematic study of state and government and comes from the Greek word “polis” meaning, “city” or equivalent to sovereign city and Latin word “scire” meaning, to know

Answer 30

Political Science

Question 31

Identification: (Under the kinds of constitution) It is the one which is enacted by the constitution assembly or granted by a monarch.

Answer 31

Conventional / Enacted

Question 32

Identification: (Under the kinds of constitution) It is the one which is a product of growth or a long period of development originating in customs, traditions, etc.

Answer 32

Cumulative / Evolved

Question 33

Identification: (Under the kinds of constitution) It is the one which has been given definite form at a particular time.

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Written

Question 34

Identification: (Under the kinds of constitution) It is entirely a product of political evolution consisting largely of a mass of customs, usage, etc.

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Unwritten

Question 35

Identification: (Under the kinds of constitution) It is regard as a document or a special sanctity which cannot be altered or amended.

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Rigid / Inelastic

Question 36

Identification: (Under the kinds of constitution) It possesses no higher legal authority than ordinary laws and which may be altered in the same way as other laws

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Flexible / Elastic

Question 37

Enumerate the 3 Scope of Political Science

Answer 37

* Political Theory * Public Law * Public Administration

Question 38

Identification: (Under the Scope of Political Science) Entire body of doctrines relating to the energy, form, behavior and purpose of the state are dealt in the study of this subject.

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Political Theory

Question 39

Identification: (Under the Scope of Political Science) The organization of governments, limitations upon government authority, powers and duty of the government offices and officers and the obligation of one state to another are handled.

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Public Law

Question 40

Identification: (Under the Scope of Political Science) Attention is focused upon the methods and techniques used in the actual management of state affairs by executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.

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Public Administration

Question 41

Give the function and importance of Political Science (3)

Answer 41

* To discover the principles that should be adhered to in public affairs and to study the operations of government. * It’s findings and conclusions may be of immense practical use to constitution makers, legislators, executives and judges who need models or norms that can be applied to immediate situations. * The study of Political Science deals also with problems of social welfare, governmental economic programs, international cooperation and a wide range of other matters.

Question 42

Give the goals in the study of Political Science

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* Education for Citizenship * Essential Parts of Liberal Education * Knowledge and understanding of government

Question 43

Identification: A community of persons more or less numerous, permanently occupying a definite portion of territory, having a government of their own to which the body of inhabitants render obedience, and enjoying freedom from external control.

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State

Question 44

Enumerate the elements of State

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* People * Territory * State * Sovereignty

Question 45

Identification: It is mass of population living within the state.

Answer 45

People

Question 46

Identification: It includes not only the land but also the rivers and lakes therein, a certain area of the sea which abuts upon its coast and the air space above it.

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Territory

Question 47

Identification: It refers to the agency through which the will of the state is formulated, expressed and carried out.

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State

Question 48

Identification: the supreme power of the state to command and enforce obedience to its will from people within its jurisdiction and to have freedom from foreign control.

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Sovereignty

Question 49

Enumerate and Describe the two manifestations of Sovereignty

Answer 49

* Internal - the power of state to rule within its territory * External - freedom of the state to carry out its activities without subjection to or control by other state. It is often referred to as Independence.

Question 50

Enumerate and Describe the two manifestations of Sovereignty

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* Internal - the power of state to rule within its territory * External - freedom of the state to carry out its activities without subjection to or control by other state. It is often referred to as Independence.

Question 51

Enumerate the 4 Origins of State

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* Divine Right Theory * Necessity or Force Theory * Paternalistic Theory * Social Contract Theory

Question 52

Identification: It is a group of people bound together by certain characteristics such as common social origin, language, customs, and traditions.

Answer 52

Identification: It is a group of people bound together by certain characteristics such as common social origin, language, customs, and traditions.

Question 53

Identification: (Origins of State) The state is of divine creation and the ruler is ordained by God.

Answer 53

Divine Right Theory

Question 54

Identification: (Origins of State) The states must have been created through force.

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Necessity or Force Theory

Question 55

Identification: (Origins of State) It attributes the origin of state to the enlargement of the family which remained under the authority of the father or mother.

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Paternalistic Theory

Question 56

Identification: (Origins of State) The states must have been formed by deliberate and voluntary compact among the people to form a society and organize a government.

Answer 56

Social Contract Theory

Question 57

Identification: It is a group of people bound together by certain characteristics such as common social origin, language, customs, and traditions.

Answer 57

Nation