socsci prefinals

• Politically speacking it is define as a community of persons

  more or less numerous living in a definite territory posses a

  government and entirely free from external control.

  State
• Elements of state

  People

  Territory

  Government

  Sovereignty
• mean supreme and final legal authority above and beyond which no legal power exists

  Sovereignty
• two aspects of Sovereignty

  Internal Sovereignty

  External Sovereignty
• means that state is supreme overall all its citizens and associations

  Internal Sovereignty
• means that state is independent and free from foreign or outside control

  External Sovereignty
• Characteristics of Sovereignty

  Permanent

  Exclusiveness

  Comprehensiveness

  Absolute

  Inalienable
• Three inherent powers of the state

  Police power

  Taxation power

  Power of Eminent Domain
• the power to enacts law for the promotion of public safety and order, public health, public morals, education and general welfare

  Police power
• the power to enact proportional contribution from the people to defray the cost governmental expenditures

  Taxation power
• the power to take private property for public use upon payment of just compensation

  Power of Eminent Domain
• the organization that people set up to protect their community and to enforce its rules. Role of __ is to protect the lives, liberties, and property of members of the community. ___ also provides services that individuals cannot provide on their own. __ are given the authority to use force- to exercise authority.

  Government
• 6 purpose of government

  Form a more perfect union

  Establish justice

  Insure Domestic Tranquility

  Provide for common defense

  Promote the General Welfare

  Secure the blessing of liberty
• Functions of government

  Constituent Function

  Ministrant Function
• those which ___ the bond of society, and are therefore, compulsory in nature

  Constituent Function
• those under taken by way of advancing the general interest of society, and are therefore optional, such as public works, public education, etc

  Ministrant Function
• types of government

  Democracy

  Oligarchy

  Dictatorship

  Monarchy

  Anarchy
• forms of government

  Limited Monarchy

  Absolute Monarchy

  Dictatorship

  Aristocracy
• Government: Division of Powers

  Unitary System

  Federation

  Confederation


  Unitary system: national government, states

  Federation: People, states, national government

  Confederation: states, national government
• -joining of powers

  -executive branch members are also legislative branch members

  -parliament elects the head of government; head can be voted out by parliament

  Parliamentary system
• -separation of powers

  -clear separation between executive and legislative branch members

  -the government's executive (president) is separate from congress


  Presidential system
• by right acc. to law

  are declared to be the standard- often(not always) by consortium

  De jure
• in reality, as a matter of fact

  standards grows to become adopted as standard

  De facto
• -a set of law/principles written or unwritten on which a country is acknowledge to be governed

  -the system of fundamental laws and principles that prescribes the nature, functions, and limits of the government

  -body of rules which regulates the system of government within the state

  Constitution
• Purpose and Functions of Constitutions

  Defines all the limits of governments power

  List the rights of the people

  Establish the structure of government

  Provides the rules and operating procedures during government

  Servers as: The supreme law of land, Fundamental law of land
• -a set of law/principles written or unwritten on which a country is acknowledge to be governed

  -the system of fundamental laws and principles that prescribes the nature, functions, and limits of the government

  -body of rules which regulates the system of government within the state

  Constitution
• Classification of Constitution ( as to their origin and history )


  Conventional or Enacted

  Cumulative or Evolved
• Classification of Constitution ( as to their form )

  Written

  Unwritten
• Classification of Constitution ( as to manner of amending them )

  Rigid or Inelastic

  Flexible or Elastic
• The Philippine Constitution was drafted by an appointive body called

  Constitutional Commission
• Requisites of a good written constitution (as to form)

  Brief, Broad, Definite
• Requisites of a good written constitution (as to contents)

  Constitution of Government

  Constitution of Liberty

  Constitution of Sovereignty
• its sets the fourth fundamental rights of the people and imposes the certain limitation on the powers of government as means of securing the enjoyment of these rights


  Constitution of Liberty
• it deals with the framework of government and its powers and defines the electorate as well

  Constitution of Government
• it points out the mode of procedure for the amendment or revision of the constitution

  Constitution of Sovereignty
• -philippines first constitution

  -also called biak na bato constitution

  -written by Isabelo Artacho and Felix Ferrer

  -lasted only until Aguinaldo and GovGen Primo de Rivera signed the pact of biak na bato

  1897 Constitution
• -written by Felipe Calderon

  -ratification and proclamation held at Barasoain Church in Malolos

  -created in accordance with the establishment of first republic

  -lasted until the philippine-american war

  Malolos Constitution
• -written by Claro M. Recto

  -created in accordance with the establishment of commonwealth republic

  -tydings-mcduffie law of 1934 caused the draft of 1935 constitution

  -effectivity was halted during japanese occupation but continued in 1941 until 1972

  -constitution has to be approved by Pres. Franklin Roosevelt

  -ratification of constitution included women for the first time


  1935 Constitution
• -drafted by PCPI

  -created in accordance with the establishment of 2nd philippine republic or Puppet republic

  -lasted until the end of japanes occupation, 1945

  1943 Constitution
• Main purpose of 1943 Constitution

  To make filipinos believe that they would be given independence

  To allow japanese to have more influence over philippine territory and resources