Politics is part and parcel of social life. It shapes the way

people live and die. As Aristotle argued, human beings are animals whose nature is for them to live in a polis or city-state. There is therefore no outside of politics and power. Being born in a country, one already acquires citizenship.

Legit means the recognition, acceptance, and support for an existing form of rule or government as right and proper.

A legitimate government is one which

has a recognized, accepted, and supported sphere of influence by the majority. A popular consent of the

governed is the basic condition for legitimate authority.

It is the kind of moral authority that keeps society together by virtue of custom and habit. This type of legitimacy emphasizes the authority of tradition by virtue of its historical practice by a particular group.

He studies a dimension of regime change or revolution focusing on a charismatic leader. He argues that seizure of power is often initiated by a leader who questions traditional authority, brings together and leads followers to oust the old regime and bring forth a new one.

Authority in this context derives from formal procedures of institutions. This is a type of legitimacy that is based on a government’s capacity to use public interest as the rationale for establishing and enforcing law and order.

It is a nominal term for social

relations, and thus exists as a given in

all societies and forms of social interaction.

is a by-product of power or how

social relations are organized in a given

social setting.

The following are the branches of state power except: