Political Theory

The ethical, social and political issues that might arise through wiki include governance issues and religious issues. The moral issues might also arise though wiki.

Most countries are secular, though only the USA has a specifically secular constitution. While there are some 'officially' religious countries such as Greece and Dennmark, their values are mostly secular and the influence of the priesthood is very limited. The non-secular religious countries are mostly Islamic, in a belt running from Mauritania, along North Africa and through the Middle East to Pakistan.

Most European countries were formerly deeply religious, and have slowly become secular through dissent and critical thinking, which recognises that religion is not an equitable basis for forming law that has to apply and make sense to all, regardless of their personal beliefs. In Islamic countries where the priesthood has a strong influence over policy, this process of dissent and criticism is at best discouraged, and at worst punishable by law with death sentences.

It is called Oriental Despotism. Earlier Marxism believed it to be a pre-feudal stage of development where powerful despots controlled mass populations and exploited tribute from them by directly interfering in their lives.

1. It hands power to the people, many of whom are generally stupid. It may be better if we were ruled by "philosopher kings".

2. Democracies are not democratic - in a country that uses a single transferable vote, it would almost certainly produce a hung Parliament where power is decided in back rooms not by the voters.

3. Voters can be bribed, threatened etcand votes can be tampered with. In countries like Afghanistan, bribing one tribal leader could change the election.

4. Not everyone votes.

5. Many voters vote based on personality, not policy.

the democratic or republican parties there is also the independent party but that is not a major party

This is more of an opinionated question. Communism is basically government control of everything. No personal ownership, no one is better than another, economically-wise. There is no free-market, and you cannot make a profit. Everyone lives to help each other, and the government overlooks the whole process. Communism would be great, that is, if the government could not be corrupted. And it's because of this small but strong reason that people hate communism, and consider it to be a threat. Of course, other reasons are because of what some may call the 'greed' of people, to make a profit, to be rewarded for their hard work, and let others perish for not working hard enough.

power is concentrated in the central govrnment state and local government can exercise only those powers given to them by the central authority.

Historically, liberal imperialism figured the colonized as backward children who had to be properly educated to enjoy eventually, property, individual rights, and citizenship. The trick of liberal imperialism is that it promises freedom and delivers subordination.

A democracy protects the rights and ideas of the majority through the vote or ballot in which the majority rules. A democracy protects the rights and ideas of a minority only if it also has a supreme law such as a constitution that puts limits on what the majority rule may do.

Yes. Belize is a parliamentary democracy with two main political parties. Queen Elizabeth II is the symbolic head of state.

Of the top 40 richest people in the world, 18 of those billionaires are from the United States.

As of September 15, 2012, those 18 Billionaires have a total of $438,000,000,000.00 together.

Why Adam of course, but one must remember that politics were after the order of God and not of man as in today's world.

YES.

Not going to work. There are lots of Republics, but if the Church is 'ruling' you have either a Kingdom, where the King is annointed by God or you have a Theocracy where Church members hold the power in Government. Neither of those examples is a Republic.

The Europes first democracy was 3rd May Constitution of 1791 of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

First answer: "because its a totalitarian government which means they control all aspects of life"

New answer: I'm sorry I can't make this a simple answer since this is not a simple question...

As I recall, communism is more of an established set of ideals. Actual "communist" governments are just basically authoritarian governments with some foundations derived from communism. What communism tries to describe is a classless and stateless society that's free from any sort of oppression. Everyone in the society has equal authority to decide upon political and economic policies thus forming a pure democracy. This is more or less a utopian society thus purely ideal and far from how it would work in the real world.

Now to address the question and becoming more subjective to the circumstances. Trying to shoot for a pure communist society sounds like a cause with plenty of merit and good intentions. But the means and possible consequences might indicate otherwise.

1. Since mentioning that an ideal communist society would be stateless, creating a communist "government" would be directly contradictory. Establishing a government would a appoint centralized leadership which would not longer make a society stateless.

2. While giving everyone equal authority and privileges sounds nice on paper and in speeches, doing so definitely would not result with everyone receiving equal benefits. It won't work because individuals are just too different from one another whether it's gender, personality, skill sets, occupation, anatomy, etc. It's in our biology to be different and diverse. The only thing we all really have common ground for is human nature which in itself certainly does not advocate equality over personal survival.

It won't work because basically communism asks for EVERYONE to think as one swarm intelligent entity. We are just not built that way. Ants and termites and bees and such are much better off attempting communism than we are by a landslide.

Moral: applying ideal philosophies (communism) to realistic circumstances (world) would not necessitate idealistic results (utopia).

If this doesn't directly satisfy your question, then you're probably talking about what we see of communism in the real world. Well then, those governments that claim to be communist are essentially giant one-party bureaucracies that have the final say on all matters within their ruling nations. Living in such countries sounds fine mainly if you're always on your government's side or if you aren't, make sure you never attract too much attention for your government to notice you directly.

Historically we always observe that those who strongly advocate communism, socialism, and the like are somehow linked to the oppressed and poor while those who advocate the opposite are usually within higher social-economic classes of respective societies. Unfortunately having those groups witnessing each other as who they represent tends to only infuriate and drive their own agendas even further, hence the revolutions and wars and such.

OBVIOUSLY, there's a lot more going on here than what I just posted in a text box. I'll make my stop here and in case you're still inclined to dig deeper (I consider that a good thing), then I strongly suggest that you start your own research and investigate as many sides of the same stories as possible for a more complete comprehension of important events and concepts.

(I apologize for any grammar mishaps if any are found :P)

A person can spend no more than 1,000 in an election on behalf of a candidate with out the candidates permission

It was not in a book by Foucault but is called Anti-Oedipus.

the king makes the laws like in a absolute monarchy

teens arnt aloud to vote because they feel as if teens are not able because of there age they, there to young to take part x i think !

Karl Marx