Political Theory

You DON'T need to lie often. But you can LIE AND tell the TRUTH at the same time. MY method is to tell my self in OTHER circumstances that it is the truth and it works. Tell the person your "LIE" and it might even work.

Containment

Because nazism is complete and total control and people like to have some freedom.

King Henry I of England had 2 royal, "official" children, William and Matilda, and reputedly 9 illegitimate sons and 15 illegitimate daughters. in a number of cases also called William and Matilda.

The Mother of the DEMOCRACY is the late President Corazon C. Aquino in the Philippines And the wife of the Late Senator BENIGNO ''NINOY'' AQUINO.

POLITICIAN (noun) 1. A frothy and slimy amalgam of lubricant, stray fecal matter and ejaculate that oozes out of an American taxpayer's rectal cavity, after a long, hard and continuous session of forced anal intercourse. Usually performed in the "doggy" or "jockey" positions.

The original Communism lasted for thousand of years: this was the first form of human society, with no classes or government or money.

So-called Communist societies since then have been cases of state capitalism.

Fascism is a variant of extreme corporatist nationalism headed by an authoritarian leadership and is usually classified as a far-right political theory. It originated in Italy under Mussolini and Hitler's Nazism is a variant of Fascism. Fascist movements shared certain common features, including the veneration of the state, a devotion to a strong leader, and an emphasis on ultra-nationalism and militarism. Fascism views political violence, war, and imperialism positively and it asserts that stronger nations have the right to expand their territory by displacing weaker nations since the national race was in perpetual conflict with other nations and races. It also argues that corporations should be able to maintain independence from direct government control (in contrast to communism), but that these privately-owned and run corporations should work in tandem with government interests.

John L. O'Sullivan gave the movement it's name

go ask the man in the bathroom who is blowing it up,....

Facism still exists. It is a form of government and an idea therefore it cannot be defeated. Facist governments can be defeated.

Since a social contract is more or less, an informal agreement between two people who share a similar purpose. Marriage could be seen as an example of social contract since it implies a lifetime of commitments that begin with one wedding day and continue to child bearing and child raising, etc.

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Rule of Law is a state of order in which events conform to the law. As we can see from Dicey's 3 main concept of Rule of Law, we can conclude that rule of law means everyone is equal to the law, including the executive, judiciary and legislation. The law is the supreme authority and no one can go above it.

Rule by law is means that no one is immune to the law set by the government. The government use the law in the most convenient way for them to govern a particular state, meaning, they set the rules and they are the supreme authority. They use the law to meet their own needs. The law is a tool of government.

They were better off under communism.

Russia was the most backward country in Europe economically and socially under the Tsar. Communism (under Lenin) did wonders for LGBT rights and started the process of rapid industrialisation. While human rights were severely restricted under Stalin, the economy boomed under his command, and after his death the Khrushchev Thaw brought many of these rights back.

Regarding Stalin's murders, while unexcusable, one must objectively see them as a necessay prerequisite for fast progress. The capitalist countries industrialised over hundreds of years and killed many millions more in their empires than the Soviet Union. A quick look at British rule in India for instance reveals masses of unecessary bloodshed. As Stalin said, the USSR had to make a 50-100 year idustrial jump in 5 years or it would be crushed/invaded. For that to be possible all oposition had to be crushed. Had their been a concurrent socialist revolution in economically advanced Germany in the late 1910s, allowing for friendly trade between the two countries, perhaps the horrors of Stalinism might have been avoided.

By the 1970s and 80s the Soviet Union was becoming more liberal. Had some clever reforms been made at that time, such as a renewed focus on producing consumer goods to boost the economy and a move away from bureaucratic to worker control of industry, the USSR might still be around today, instead of the gangster ruled Russia where people still 'disappear', women can make a better living taking their clothes off than working hard towards a meaningful professional job, and LGBT rights are non-existant (compare that to Brezhnev's 'fraternal kiss'). Sadly, Stalin's purges and changes to the party structure meant that any fresh talent found it difficult to reach the centres of political and economic power.

Overall, the Soviet Union was not perfect, but taking into account the difficult circumstances and of its creation, and the prolonged witchhunt it was subjected to by the industrialised western nations, it provided a more egalitarian, meritocratic and respectable society than Russia under the Tsar or currently under Putin. Long live its memory. May we get it right next time.

As concerns Middle Eastern regimes in the most general sense, there are a few noticeable patterns. Note: Since many Arab regimes are undergoing massive internal changes due to the Arab Spring, this answer may become dated very quickly.

1) Illiberal Democracies: Many Arab Nations were Liberal Democracies on paper with guaranteed voting rights, freedoms of speech and religion, constitutions that bind the authority of the Executive. In nearly every Arab regime that this describes (like Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Mubarak's Egypt, ben Ali's Tunisia) these paper rights and limitations on paper did not exist. These rulers used an apparent mechanism of democracy to perpetuate a dictatorship.

2) Absolute Kingdoms, Sultanates, and Emirates:There is no difference between a Kingdom and Sultanate except that the rulers have different names (King vs. Sultan). An Emirate is similar to a Kingdom but takes up less space (i.e. Principality). The Arab World has an impressive number of Absolute Monarchs (such as those who rule various Emirates like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Qatar, those who rule Kingdoms like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, and those who rule Sultanates like Oman). These monarchs control their people through direct edicts and typically run a nepotistic government.

3) Constitutional Monarchies: There are some Kingdoms (like Jordan and Morocco) where the King is constrained by a Constitution and requires a Parliament to pass laws. However, the strength of these Parliaments is often minimal and the politicians are typically considered untrustworthy (while the King is well-received).

4) Military Juntas: Algeria and Qadhafi's Libya were organized as Military-Run Governments with the leaders officially styling themselves as Presidents but being perceived as Caudillos. As opposed to the leaders of Illiberal Democracies, even the Constitutions of their countries (which are useless) do not legitimate them in the way that Illiberal Democratic Dictators are legitimated on paper. (If we are strictly talking about the Middle East, the historic Iraqi government of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and that of Abd el-Karim Qasim would qualify.)

5) Compromised Government: In Situations with various powerful ethnic groups like Lebanon (with its Maronite, Shiite, and Sunni communities) and Iraq with its (Shiite, Sunni Arab, and Kurd communities) there are democracies which guarantee certain positions in the government to a certain ethnic group so that one group cannot dictate policies for all the other groups. This often results in fights over census taking as that might lessen a particular group's strength and actual group on group violence to intimidate voters of one ethnic group to vote for a candidate that also supports whatever objective would help the perpetrator who is of a different ethnicity. This results in very fragile agreements.

6) Theocracy: This is not a unique style of government per se, but it concerns religion's central role in the management of government affairs. Theocracies can be Illiberal Democracies such as Iran. Iran is an Illiberal Democracy because although it has an elected parliament, the elections are controlled by the non-elected Supreme Council of Ayatollahs. It is a theocracy because the Ayatollahs are all clergy of the Twelver Shiite Islam religion. Saudi Arabia is also considered a theocracy, but it is a theocratic absolute monarchy because the Wahhabi Councils have strong influence with the Saudi King and in public policy.

7) Parliamentary Democracy: Israel, Turkey, and Cyprus have governments where all citizens over a certain age can vote for political parties that occupy seats in a Parliament and create a ruling coalition. This coalition appoints the Prime Minister and takes over the affairs of governance between the fair and non-fraudulent elections. If current Tunisia continues to behave the way it did in the previous election by the time the next election comes, it too will become a Parliamentary Democracy.

A queen is chosen as a two-day-old larva. Once she emerges from her cell, she quickly finds and kills any rivals, one at a time as they are hatched. Then she mates with enough drone (male) bees to give her enough sperm cells to last her lifetime (about two to five years). She can lay up to 2,000 eggs each day, and chooses eggs to be drone or worker bees by either fertilizing them (worker) or not (drone). Once a queen dies, a new one is chosen, and the cycle begins again.

It means the bottom level of an organization, or movement -- especially applied to political activities. The grassroots are contrasted with the party bosses and a grassroots movement is one that springs from the little people in the party.

No, I don't think so. I live in California and we have a system that any initiative can be on the ballot with a set number of voter signatures. Some of these things are written by special interests and only help them, others are silly, and then there are the dangerous ones. These are the ones that mask as one thing on the surface, but really do something else. A few years ago we had proposition 57 that wanted to use discrimination against Hispanic immigrants. It passed, but went to the courts. This last year was one that lessened the prison time for nonviolent offenders. On the surface it sounds good, but since passage crime has gotten worse. The pot initiative passed this fall to make pot legal but cities are passing laws not allowing the sale of pot and the federal government is still arresting people.

Until they have all the evidence to prove you have committed the crime you can not be charged for it

The characteristics of sovereignty in the Philippines are absoluteness, permanence and inalienability. This is a status of the Philippines that says that Philippines is a state of sovereign.