UCSP M6

• Society is power - all actions we do is tied to networks of social interactions
• What is your dream? What is the Filipino dream?
• Institutions


  A humanly devised structure of rules and norms that shape and constrain social behavior. The kinds of structures that matter most in the social realm: they make up the stuff of social life.
• Examples of institutions


  • Language
  • Money
  • Law
  • Systems of weights and measures
  • Table manners
  • Firms (and other organizations)
• State


  A formal group that is sovereign over its members and occupies a well-defined territory. It is the formal apparatus of authoritative roles and law norms through which the sovereignty is exercised.
• Elements of the state

  • Population - a community of persons that exist together
  • Territory - a geographical area owned and controlled by a Government or the legal community
  • Government - Executive branch of the state, powered by the Constitution and acts as the enforcer of the existing laws
  • Sovereignty - The absolute concept that grants a state "power" to exercise on its own, the binding legitimacy to craft laws to its land and be able to interact with other states as an equal
• The Vice-President may be appointed as a Member of the Cabinet. Such appointment requires no confirmation.
• The legislative power shall be vested in the Congress of the Philippines which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives, except to the extent reserved to the people by the provision on initiative and referendum.
• The judicial power shall be vested in one Supreme Court and in such lower courts as may be established by law.
• The power of checking treaties, law, agreements unconstitutional falls to the judiciary.
• One must use power to check power - Baron De Montesquieu