GOVERNMENT AS SOCIAL INSTITUTION REPORTER:ALIYAH PETALLAR SANGUILA

GOVERNMENT - an institution that resolves conflicts that are public in nature and involve more than a few people ‘‘an institution by which an independent society makes and carries out those rules of action w/ are necessary to enable men to live in a social state or w/ are imposed upon the people for that society by those who possess the power or authority of prescribing them”(supreme court of the Phil.)

3 BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT 1)EXECUTIVE BRANCH 2)LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 3)JUDICIAL BRANCH

The pattern of human interaction that serves to resolve conflicts between peoples, institution and nation POLITICS

ADMINISTRATION The aggregate of persons in whose hands the reigns of government are for the time being

TYPES OF GOVERNMENTS 1) Monarchy 2) Democracy 3)Authoritarianism 4) Totalitarianism

1)The constituent functions contribute to the very bonds of society and are therefore compulsory. Among the constituent functions are as follows: a)Keeping of order and providing for the protection of persons and property from violence and robbery. b)Fixing of the legal relations between husbands and wife, and between parents and children c) Regulation of the holding,transmission and interchange of property and the determination of its liabilities for the debt or for crime

d) Determination of contractual rights between individuals e)The definition and punishment for crimes f) The administration of justice in civil cases g)The administration of political duties, privileges and relations of citizens h) The dealings of the state w/ foreign growers, the preservation of the state from external danger or encroachment and the advancement of its international affairs and interests

2) The ministrant functions are those undertaken to advance the general interests of society, such as public works, public charity, and regulation of trade and industry. These functions are merely optional.

Governments like natural bodies have their time of growing perfection and declining, and according to their constitutions, some hold out longer, and some decay sooner than others, but all in their beginnings and infancies are subject to so many infirmities and imperfections, that what Solomon said of a monarchy, "Woe to that kingdom whose prince is a child," may be more justly said of a new republic and we may with as much reason say, "Woe be to that people that live under a young government." Samuel Butler