Review of Week One - 16 Week

Why Do You Have to Take this Class?
1 - It is required
2 - An understanding of government is necessary in order to secure civil liberties and rights, and ensure the capacity for self government.
Ask ChatGPT: Does artifical intelligence pose a threat to civil liberties?


Key Terms: 
- What is Power?
- What is Authority?
- What is Government?
- What is Politics?
Ask ChatGPT: How can power be limited?
Ask ChatGPT: How does the U.S. Constitution limit power?


Types of Authority: 
- Charismatic
- Rational Legal
- Traditional
Ask ChatGPT: What are current examples of governments based on traditional authority?
Ask ChatGPT: What are current examples of governments based on charismatic authority?


Aristotle's Conception of Government
- Who rules?
- - one
- - few (what does this mean?)
- - many (plurality, simple majority, super majority, consensus)
- Good or Corrupt?
- - Good benefits all
- - Corrupt benefits only the rulers
Ask ChatGPT: What are the advantages and disadvantages of rule of the one?
Ask ChatGPT: What is corruption?


Key Terms:
- Dictatorship
- - Tyranny
- Oligarchy
- - Plutocracy, others . . . 
- Democracy
- - Direct, or pure
- - Indirect, or Representative


Centralized
- Unitary
Decentralized
- Separated Powers
- Federal

Arbitrary
Limited