Group of people that share some culture, territory, history, language, or ethnicity

It seeks to study politics less from the point of view of the legal institutions in terms of their powers, and more from the point of view of the functions which constitute the political process and their actual operation in the environment.

It seeks to study all the formal and informal, governmental and extra-governmental, which are directly or indirectly involved in the struggle for power taking place in each state.

It is the study of the actual behaviour of the people in the process of politics. Voting behaviour, political participation, leadership recruitment, elite behaviour, mass politics, populism etc.

It seeks to analyse the actual behaviour and performance of political systems-Western as well as non-Western. Political Systems are analysed and compared in terms of their structures, functions, capabilities and performances.

It is a study of the psychological, sociological, economic and anthropological environment, in fact, the social environment as whole, in which each political system operates.

It is composed of attitudes, beliefs, emotions and values of a society that relate to the political system and to political issues.

It involves the decision-making, Policy¬making, Judicial Process, Leadership recruitment process and others, which are always at work in all political systems.

State is Abstract, Government is Concrete

State belongs to territory

Government is only an element of the state

Membership of a State is compulsory but not of Government

State is Permanent, Government is Temporary

This type of forms of government has a limitation power where have a parliamentary which there has a separation of power between them because there has a government that works with the Queen or King.

It is a form of government which a few elite citizens rule which typically the wealthy and educated people where in this kind of government it ruled by the best.

In absolute Monarchy, the monarch roles often in ceremonial functions such as example representing his/her country which act as symbol of the whole country.

Authoritarian rule imposes blind obedience in order to reach a certain goal

Totalitarian rule imposes obedience for the benefit of a leader's personal desires

For the majority of its time, Russia has been under Communist rule

North Korea is a democratic country

The earliest concept of Communism dates back to Aristotle's "The Republic."

Form of government in which a state is ruled by the representatives of the citizen body

The voting of majority has almost unlimited power to makes law

In republican form of government, citizens are not empowered to participate in a representational political system.

It is an advantage of parliamentary system that nations are ethnically, racially, and ideologically divided

It is an advantage of presidential system in which the president is given direct mandate from the people.

It usually happen when the president and the majority of legislature came from the different or opposing parties.

A government system that includes the idea of separation of head of state and the head of government

A type of bicameralism that includes the hereditary peers which is an example in British House of Lords

Unicameral legislature is suitable for the small countries

Political scientists believe that unicameralism makes meaningful political reforms

The committee that investigate the work of government is called “scrutiny and accountability”

The “first-past-the-post” is an electoral system that is used in a parliamentary system.

The separation of power is an advantage in presidential system

The rivalry between the ruling party and the opposition is considered as an advantage in a parliamentary system

Rigidity leads to the stability of presidential system

Parliamentary system was said to violate the concept of separation of powers.

It is the tendency towards authoritarianism when the president ends up speaking only for his/her supporters

Bicameral model provided the merits of checks and balances

The maintenance of peace and order, the protection of life, liberty, and property, and promotion of the general welfare are essential for the enjoyment by all the people of the blessings of democracy.

The Philippines is a democratic and republican State. Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them.

The Philippines renounces war as an instrument of national policy, adopts the generally accepted principles of international law as part of the law of the land and adheres to the policy of peace, equality, justice, freedom, cooperation, and amity with all nations.

The prime duty of the Government is to serve and protect the people. The Government may call upon the people to defend the State and, in the fulfillment thereof, all citizens may be required, under conditions provided by law, to render personal, military or civil service

Civilian authority is, at all times, supreme over the military. The Armed Forces of the Philippines is the protector of the people and the State. Its goal is to secure the sovereignty of the State and the integrity of the national territory.

No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws.

The privacy of communication and correspondence shall be violable except upon lawful order of the court, or when public safety or order requires otherwise, as prescribed by law.

The right of the people to information on matters of public concern shall be recognized.

Free access to the courts and quasi-judicial bodies and adequate legal assistance shall be denied to any person by reason of poverty.

Person shall be detained solely by reason of his political beliefs and aspirations.

Natural Rights is Conferred and protected by the constitution

Civil Rights a law which secures private individuals for the purpose of securing enjoyment of their means of happiness

State is an instrument to promote both economic and political.

The bill of rights is charter of liberties for the individual and a limitation upon the power of the state

Civil Rights a law which secures private individuals for the purpose of securing enjoyment of their means of happiness

The Constitution grants to the President the exercise of the executive power, the power of appointment, the power of control, military powers, pardoning power, borrowing power, informing power and other powers granted under the constitution

Executive power vested in the President has been defined as the power to administer and enforce the laws. Alongside with this power is the responsibility of the President to "ensure that all laws are faithfully executed

No person may be elected President unless he is a natural-born citizen of the Philippines, a registered voter, able to read and write, at least 40 years of age on the day of the election, and a resident of Philippines for at least 10 yrs immediately preceding such election

The requirements for Presidency ensures that the person to be elected president must have acquinted with the needs and as well as the aspiration of the country.

The person may be elected as the Vice president shall have the same qualifications as the President

President and the Vice president who are elected by direct popular vote and serve a term of 6 years, shall begin at noon on the 30^th day of June following the day of election

The President is not eligible for any reelection

President’s voluntarily renunciation of the office for any length of time shall not be considered as an interruption in the continuity of the service of the full term for which he was elected

Vice-President may be removed from office in the same manner as the President.

The residency of the person may be elected as President is relatively longer than Member of the Congress.

In what Article of the Philippine Constitution we can find the requirements for the Executive Department?

The Section _ of the Article VII stating the executives shall be elected by direct vote of the people

An act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws which exempts individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed.

Itcommonly denotes the general pardon to rebels for their treason and other high political offenses, of the forgiveness which one sovereign grants to the subjects of another, who have offended some branch of the law of nations.

It is a remission of a part of the punishment, a submission of a less penalty for the one originally imposed.

Who is the first president of the Philippines?

The 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines was presented to President Corazon C. Aquino on___________15, 1986 and It was ratified on February 2, 1987

There have been 15 Presidents of the Philippines from the establishment of the office on January 23, __________, in the Malolos Republic.

What are the roles of the President?

What are the powers of the President?

How many terms does members of House of Representative have?

What is the qualified age of a person who wants to be a senator?

What is the qualified age of a person who wants to be a senator?

Required the approval of both chambers of Congress and the signature of the President

Used for matters affecting the operations of both chambers of Congress and must be approved in the same form by both houses

Legislative Power refers to?

" A judicial power rest with the supreme courts and the lower courts"

The members of the supreme court and judges of the lower court shall hold office during good behavior until they reach the age of ______

The supreme court is composed of

The composition of the members of supreme court is appointed by the

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.

No person shall be a Senator unless he is not natural-born citizen of the Philippines and, on the day of the election, is not at least thirty-five years of age

According to Section 2 of Article VI Legislative Department, the Senate shall be composed of twenty-four Senators who shall be elected at large by the qualified voters of the Philippines, as may be provided by law.

According to Section 4 of Article VI Legislative Department, the terms of senators are six years.

According to Section 11 of Article VIII Judicial Depeartment, the Members of the Supreme Court and judges of the lower court shall hold office during good behaviour until they reach the age of seventy year or become incapacitated to discharge the duties of their office.