When I hear the word, ‘GOVERNMENT’ I connect to words like ‘POWER’, ‘UNCLE SAM’, and ‘AUTHORIY’ to simplify that complex word. According, to Cambridge Dictionary the definition of Government is, “the system used for controlling a country, city, or group or people and activities involved”. Our Government is known to have a set of political principles by a country that is governed also called the Constitution. The US Constitution design is laid out to be as an original piece, but it’s the ending product of the numerous philosophers and their arguments of the document to a certain degree. A dead white man named, Thomas Jefferson, one of the creators of the U.S. Constitution was greatly influenced by another dead white man from Enlightenment era named John Locke. Locke’s Theory believed in Natural Rights, rights that are …show more content…
These theories (that you have taught me) have the four basic elements: territory, population, government, and sovereignty. Number 1: The Force Theory – taking certain parts of land as own, by force, like Anarchism. This government exists to enforce the intention of the strong and overpower the weak. Number 2: Social Contract- is created by the people in order to arrange needs, like safety from crime and poverty, which cannot be compensated for purely individual means. This government exists for the purpose of the peoples’ needs and wishes, this relationship between which both the government and the people is under a constitution and a set of laws, that both must abide by. Number 3: The Theory of Divine Right- when ‘God’ or an upper power figure that approves a certain single individual the divine right to rule. This government is seen that people expect to obey monarch as god. Number 4: Evolutionary theory- Claims that state naturally develops out of the early family. This government is changing (over time) for the good of the