CROSSWORD PUZZLE ON POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE
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- 3. also known as the Force Theory maintains that the state must have been created as a product of the existence of the strong and weak in society, and as a result of their struggle against each other wherein those who are strong are able to dominate and impose their will upon the weak.
- 6. resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them.
- 8. refers to the act, made by the family of the nations that renders a state its international status
- 11. is a society of inhabitants of a specific geographic region united and bound together by a common racial ancestry, the same language and culture, historical past, laws and a shared interests and sentiments over the passing of many years.
- 15. is a medium of communication, which enables the people to express their ideas. It is the basis of all other elements of nationality.
- 17. territorial domain which includes air.
- 19. is a type of theory that asserts that the early states must have been informed by deliberate and voluntary compact among the people to form a society and organize government for their common good.
- 21. also known as the natural theory, which holds that the state is founded out of man’s natural instinct for association.
- 24. is a type of theory which holds that the state is of divine creation and the ruler is ordained by God to govern the people.
- 27. territorial domain which includes maritime
- 28. a natoin based on ethnicity; such a nation is assumed to be composed of one ethnolinguistic group
- 29. the term nationality is derived from this Latin word, which means ‘to be born’.
- 31. without this there can no be state.
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- 1. aptly observes that “a nationality lives either because it has been a natio, with its own territory and State or, because it wishes to become a nation with its own territory and State”
- 2. refers to the inhabitants or population of a particular territory
- 4. aspect of sovereignty which refers to the independence of a state from control by any other state.
- 5. ought to be the basis of forming states.
- 7. states that are not autonomous or strong enough to survive or function effectively, with their ability to formulate and implement goals and policies being often compromised.
- 9. a type of power that is the plenary power vested in the legislature to make, ordain, and establish wholesome and reasonable laws, statues, not repugnant to the Constitution, for the good and welfare of the people. Generally exercised by the Congress.
- 10. also known as the Evolutionary Theory is mor scientific and explains that “the state is the product of growth, a slow and steady evolution extending over a long period of time and ultimately shaping itself into the complex structure of a modern state”.
- 12. the supreme power to command and enforce obedience, the power to which, legally speaking, all interests subdue and all wills subordinate
- 13. the means at the disposal of the state to implement official goals, specially over the actual or potential opposition of powerful social groups ot in the face of recalcitrant socioeconomic circumstances.
- 14. territorial domain which includes the land.
- 16. the power of the nation or a sovereign state to take, or to authorize the taking of private property for a public use without the owner’s consent, conditioned upon payment of just compensation.
- 18. is a theory which attributes the origin of states to the enlargement of the family which remained under the authority of the father or mother.
- 20. may have all the requisites for a state to exist.
- 22. it is the power by which the State raises revenue to defray the necessary expenses of the Government.
- 23. refers to the ability of the political leaders to formulate and pursue goals that are “not simply reflective of the demands or particular interests of social groups or classes in society.”
- 25. Aspect of sovereignty that is the supreme or absolute power of a state to enforce its will on the people within its territory.
- 26. is a type of theory that believes that the state must have been founded to take charge of man’s various needs that must be continuously and consistently satisfied.
- 30. an organization composed of numerous agencies led and coordinated by the state’s leadership (excutive authority), which has the ability or authority to make and implement the binding rules for all the people as well as the parameters of rule making for other social organizations in a given territory, using force if necessary.