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    I think about a political community, I usually associate it with elections, politicians, and advertisements that bad mouth candidates from the different political parties. Politicians try to persuade citizens to vote for them by making promises that they may never fulfill. But a political community is more than that. A comparison of Aristotle and John Locke’s nature and purpose of a political community has given me a new insight. I learned that, even though the political community is responsible to

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    question of violence in relation to the political community? Are their respective views justified? Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan is concerned with arguing how one would best achieve social unity and civil peace governed by what he calls the Leviathan (sovereign.) Regarding, the question of violence relation to a political community, I will consider Hobbes’s natural condition of man understood as ‘a state of war’ and his fundamental framework for political community in order to escape the violence and chaos

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    that Canadians constitute a political community with one national identity; however, when examined thoroughly Canadian unity remains fragile. Although Canada appears to have a solid political community, two of the founding nations have their own national identities, allegiance, and political culture which constitutes “nations within” (Russell, 2000, p. 70). Therefore, it is important to trace the origins of Canada’s political community and then define the political community in order to create the ground

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    A nation can be described as an “imagined political community” Anderson suggest. “It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.” (Anderson 256) He states that a community is imagined because people in the community don’t know each other, but they already have a predefined image of each-others, just by their geographic politic preference, and

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    The Political Community The “social apartheid” that exist in Guatemala separates Guatemala into two places and does not allow the country to be united, both democratically socially. The indigenous population is separated from opportunities. Without the minimal conditions, necessary for citizens to exercise their rights in practice there is not citizenship and therefore no “true” democracy. New democratic institutions must both address the anxiety existing among Ladinos and prove to be responsive

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    overall political community. Now on the other side J.S Mill (1955) says that, “all good things which exist are the fruits of originality.” (80) The ideas of individualism and community are not new, but I would like to argue that individualistic ideas, to an extent, does not hurt the political community.

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    The Distribution of Power within the Political Community: Class, Status, Party (1914): by Max Weber Summary In “The Distribution of Power within the Political Community: Class, Status, Party”, Max Weber discusses the two types of powers: social and economic. However, between social power and economic power, they each vary in the sense of their prestige. Those with economic power have the ability to monopolize the goods and commodities coming in and out of the market, and have the power to choose

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    and political system that is established in any nation is designed on the fundamental principles of their existence, which define their cultures, their needs, their demands and the concept of their living. From this we can deduce that a kind of charter comprising of the values, ideas, thoughts, principles and the ethical boundaries of a society, that works for the construction of a social embodiment of a country and graphs out certain templates of actions to be followed is known as a political ideology

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    monster-like outcast of Victor himself and society. Connecting my reading of the novel to the article “Family, Humanity, Polity: Theorizing the Basis and Boundaries of Political Community in Frankenstein” by Colene Bentley, I support her argument that Shelley “examines the basis and boundaries of established society” and “communities whose social relations and standards of justice are forged through choice and impartial standards of justice rather than by sentiment or genealogy” (Bentley 326). From

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    One of the critiques that is often raised that it is very costly. Certainly, the process itself costs money, however, it could lower the expenses by stopping “some of the costly proto-federal practices aimed at concealing disputes between the two Communities in a unitary context” (Swenden, 2003). He also argues that the state of public finance is better nowadays than in was before the reforms. One of his strongest arguments is that people have actually started identifying more with Belgium than before

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