 SCIE SOCIAL NCE

 Philippine Politics and Governance📖

 👉Politics- in general, it means organizing human activities.

 Politics is all around.
 Politics happens because of the need to make
 decisions in the complex world we live in.
 According to Aristotle, “Man by nature is a political
 animal”. If it is true, then politics is not only
 common in our lives – it is unavoidable.
 👉Elements of Politics:
 Power
 Rule
 Authority
 Influence
 💟Demo – people / Kratos – power
 👉Governance- it refers to the way in which something is
 governed to meet objectives such as protecting its people,
 and acting in the country’s best interest.
 👉State is a group of people living in a definite territory,
 having a government of their own and enjoying their own
 independence.
 👉Elements of State
 1.People – a mass of population or community of people
 living within the territorial jurisdiction of state.
 2. Territory- The space within which the government
 exercise its supreme authority.
 3. Government- agency through which the will of the state
 are formulated, expressed carried out.
 4. Sovereignty– the supreme power of the state to enforce
 its will upon its citizen through laws. It also means
 independence from the control of other states. 👉It has two
 aspects:
 internal sovereignty- w/c means complete
 authority to rule over the people inside the state
 external sovereignty (often referred as
 independence) – which means independence from
 outside or foreign control.
 👉Nation - any large group of people who are united by
 common bonds of race, language, custom, tradition, or
 religion.
 State v Nation
 💟State is a political concept while nation is an ethnic concept.💟
 👉Modes of Acquiring a Territory
o Discovery and Occupation- a state may acquire a territory by discovering a
continent, an island or land with no inhabitants or occupied by uncivilized
 inhabitants and thereafter, occupying it, by placing it under its political
administration.
o Prescription- it is a mode of