Exercise I.

Identify the following:

Political Science 1. The science of state and government.

History 2. Past politics
Sociologist 3. Specializes in the study of society as a whole
Economics 4. Production, distribution, conservation, and consumption of wealth
Government 5. The agency through which the state articulate its will.
Philosophy 6. A political concept
Anthropologist 7. An ethnic concept
United States 8. Has a federal form of government
Polis 9. Greek word meaning “city”
Scire 10. Latin word meaning ‘’ to know.”
People 11. Inhabitants living within the state
Limited Monarchy 12. Constitutional monarchy
Sovereignty 13. Supreme power of the state to command and enforce obedience
Eminent Domain 14. The power of expropriation
Statistics and Logic 15. Correct reasoning
Geography 16. Quantitative measurement of social phenomena
Executive 17. President and the Cabinet
Absolute Monarchy 18. Ruler rules by divine right
Legislative 19. Congress composed of a Senate and a House of Representatives
Judiciary 20. Supreme Court and the lower courts

Exercise 2:

1. What are the other branches of learning that are correlated to political science ? Provide a
short description of each.
 History — “ history is past politics and politics is present history.”
 Economics — the study of the production, distribution and conservation, and consumption
of wealth.
 Sociology and Anthropology — Sociology is the study of “society as a whole” while
Anthropology is the study of ”mankind” in relation to physical, social, and cultural
development.
 Geography — is the study concerned in physical features of a certain place.
 Statistics and Logic — has something to do with the statistical tools and analysis, other than
reasoning.
 Psychology — concerned with the mental and emotional factors.
 Philosophy — various ideas or concepts of the famous philosophers like Aristotle and Plato.
 Jurisprudence — concerned with the analysis of existing legal systems and also with the
ethical, historical, sociological, and psychological foundations of law.

2. Enumerate the goals in the study of political science.

• Education for citizenship
• Essential parts of liberal education
• Knowledge and understanding of government
3. List the four essential elements of the state.
 People
 Government
 Territory
 Sovereignty

4. Differentiate state, nation and government.

A nation is a group of people bound together by certain characteristics such as common social
origin, language, customs, and traditions, and who believe that they are one and distinct from
others. The term is more strictly synonymous with “people.” On the other hand a state is a
community of persons more or less numerous, permanently occupying a definite portion of
territory, having a government of their own to which the great body of inhabitants render
obedience, and enjoying freedom from external control. Government, meanwhile, refers to the
agency through which the will of the state is formulated, expressed, and carried out. Therefore,
government, state and nation differ from each other.

5. Give the different forms of government.

1. As to the number of persons exercising sovereign powers:

a. Monarchy
 Absolute Monarchy
 Limited Monarchy
b. Aristocracy
c. Democracy
 Direct or pure democracy
 Indirect, representative, or republican

2. As to the extent of powers exercised by the central or national government:

 Unitary government
 Federal government

3. As to relationship between the executive and the legislative branches of the

government:
 Parliamentary government
 Presidential government

6. Classify the Philippine Government.

The Philippine government is a representative democracy, a unitary and presidential
government with separation of powers. It also embodies some aspects of pure democracy
such as the constitutional provision on initiative and referendum. Under our Constitution,
executive power is vested in the President and the Cabinet, legislative power with the
Congress composed of a Senate and a House of Representatives, and judicial power with the
Supreme Court and the lower courts.