FUNDAMENTALS OF LAW AND GOVERNMENT
Basic Concepts Part 1
Society
What is society?
What is a difference between humans and other social animals?
What is the definition of society?
Do the boundaries of society are exactly the same as boundaries (borders) of states?
What is a difference between the state and the government?
State
What is state?
What is the origin of a state?
What are the components of state?
What are the functions of state?
Is international recognition necessary for the state to exist?
And what is anarchy?
Government
What is Government?
Why is the difference between government and the society?
Why some rules need to by enforced?
What are the functions of government?
Power
What is power?
How can we exercise our power?
Authority [autorytet, Authorität, autorité]
What is authority?
Why do we follow authority?
What is natural authority?
What is public authority?
Legitimacy
What is legitimacy?
Why legitimacy is so important?
What are the sources of legitimacy according to Max Weber?
What is a legitimacy based on tradition?
What is a legitimacy based on legal norms?
What is a legitimacy based on charisma?
Are there any other sources of legitimacy?
authority --- legitimacy --- obligation
Right to command belief in rightness of government sense of duty
