1. Fundamentals of Law and Government
Basic Concepts
Part 1

2. Society What is society?
What is a difference between humans and other social animals?
Is there definition of society?
Why do we need society?

3. Can we live outside society?
How society forms?
Where one society ends and another starts?

4. What was first: society or state?
Do the boundaries of society are exactly the same as boundaries (borders) of states?
Is there one global society or are there many separated societies?

5. Government What is Government?
Why is the difference between government and the society?
Why some rules need to by enforced?

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7. What are the functions of government?
Are there functions of government all the same around the world?
And what about anarchy?

8. Power What is power? What does it mean to have a power?
What are the bases of power?

9. What are social and political powers?
What is legitimate power?
Why we follow those with power?

10. Authority What is authority? Why do we follow authority?
Why authority is better than coercion in society and state?

11. What is natural authority?
What is public authority?
Who has public authority?
What is the relationship between public authority and social order?

12. Legitimacy What is legitimacy? Why legitimacy is so important?
What are the sources of legitimacy?

13. Are there any types of legitimacy?
What factors contribute to legitimacy in the modem state?
What are the limits of legitimacy?

14. authority -------------------------- legitimacy ------------------------- obligation
Right to command belief in rightness of government sense of duty