Introduction+to+Political+Philosophy

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 * || ** [|NSS-C.9-12.1] CIVIC LIFE, POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT** || ||
 * What are Civic Life, Politics, and Government? **
 * What is civic life? What is politics? What is government? Why are government and politics necessary? What purposes should government serve?
 * What are the essential characteristics of limited and unlimited government?
 * What are the nature and purposes of constitutions?
 * What are alternative ways of organizing constitutional governments?

World History/European History/US History/Democracy
Aristotle, Politics the polis Machiavelli, The Prince Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan the sovereign state John Locke, Second Treatise of Government constitutional government Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Political Writings democracy Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America