Overview of the Issue
Socialism is the social and economic theory that promotes the public control and ownership of property and natural resources. This socialist view claims that individual does not live and work in segregation and seeks collaboration with each other’s (Ball & Dagger). Furthermore, government has power and right to exercise specific social and economic theory in the society. In other hands, government with a set of moral principles also has moral obligation towards every citizens for providing good governance. As a result, a guiding philosophy of government is subject to scrutinize in socialist government (www.ethics.org, 2009).
Government
According to Merriam Webster, Government is an agency, machinery or establishment through which elected body exercises authority and executes functions and the distribution of power usually labels form of it. Additionally, it is a service or division of the highest authority of a nation or state, representing the entire. The functions of government are performed through the intricate political institutions, traditions and laws for instance, legislatives, executives and judicial branches. In fact, the forms of governments determine how the so called machinery is carried out and how the power would distributed.
All the forms of the governments classified according to the distribution of power. The power of the government simply can be divided into three forms: absolute, moderate and zero. These fundamental aspects of power distribution are seen in many forms of government from absolute monarchy to republic and to anarchy. Moreover, there are other lists basic form of government such as authoritarian, communism, democracy, dictatorship, federal, oligarchy, socialism, theocr...
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...duction (Hastings & Selbie, 2003).
Additionally, the extreme position which may be labeled as rationalism and irrationalism are the methodological issue related to the both ethical as well as epistemological. However, there exists panoply of schools of reflection that are extracted from the philosophical shades of individualists and communitarians (Moseley, 2005).
Meta-ethical Investigation
This is the belief on the basis of absolutism which states that there are absolutes, including ethical absolutes. C.S. Lewis, a philosopher, observed and concluded that the possibility of natural order of things, including “right and wrong”, called as “Natural Law”. Moreover, it can be seen that there are some things that are true in creation. There is a belief that people have right to life, freedom and property which is as simple as the way things are (Underwood, 2008).
The American government is a simple yet complex system comprised of three different branches: Legislative Branch, Executive Branch, and Judicial Branch. To understand how each of these branches work, it is essential to understand what a government is. Government is, the institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies.
222 years ago, the United States government was created, thanks to a little document known as the Constitution. Within the Constitution, three branches of government were created; the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. Each of these branches have checks upon each other and keep the country running like a well-oiled machine.
In history, governments have endeavored to rule their subjects. Major forms of authority consist primarily of monarchy, absolute monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, tyranny, theocracy, and republic. By examining the main faults of each government, the republic is clearly the superior form.
By avoiding capitalism, and dictatorship means of governance, everything should be led under a pragmatic leadership system. They try to tell us from the two articles that individual efforts brings pride and since the few have money, they use their cash to control the way the country’s resources should be run and managed. It is, therefore, worth to know how socialism is embraced by all, everything must be owned by the citizens. There will be no essence of stealing since all the citizens wealth belongs to
On the other hand, the democracy powers are divided into three independent branches of government; executive, legislative, and judicial. The leaders of the executive and legislative branches, the president, vice president and Senate, are decided by direct vote of the electorate. The judges in the judicial branch are sele...
These governments came in different styles such as a monarchy which was led by a king. Another form of government that was seen among the Greeks was aristocracy in which the polis was ruled by a small group of noble, land owning families. One of the more notable polis of ancient Greek was that of Sparta in which they used the oligarchy as there form of government. This type of government is where the people are ruled by a few powerful people. Finally, there was democracy which means “rule of the people” (The Legacy of Ancient Greece and Rome 1-7). This was the government that Athens utilized and helped establish. These varying types of government can be seen throughout governments today, however, it is the government established by the Athenians and their political structure that had a greater impact on the west than that of its Greek polis counterparts.
Democracy has been the root of a limited government, the system of which government powers are distributed so that one group of leaders do not have too much influence. The limited government has been structured to keep peace amongst all parties that are involved in the government. And under the U.S. Constitution, citizens are given ultimate power by their right to choose their representatives through the democratic process of voting. Each levels of the government are limited as they have their own responsibilities. The city government has the most local level of government as the residents elect a city council and mayor to represent their interest at the city level. All city governments establish housing and health regulations, and are responsible
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If one looks at liberty and individual freedom, it is evident that command economies tend to oppress their citizens. Therefore, socialism, which allows for basic needs to be met and personal freedoms to be upheld, is the best economic system for all of a country’s citizens. Market economies, as a whole, inherently and inevitably lead to poverty and a large class disparity. In a capitalist society, the ones who supply labor, the ones who work the hardest, are the ones who are paid the least. The owners, who are already rich, receive most of the profit and accumulate large masses of wealth.
The world’s economies continue to be divided on by whom their means of production benefit, supply, enrich, and protect. Many debates and altercations have been a result of disagreements between capitalists and socialists. Socialists believe the government is essential in providing equality for all and the allocation of capital goods. But the strength of capitalism can be attributed to an incentive structure based upon the three P’s: (1) prices determined by market forces, (2) a profit-and-loss system of accounting and (3) private property rights. The failure of socialism can be traced to its neglect of these three incentive-enhancing components. (Perry) Socialism gives power to the government to regulate the goods produced, the amount of goods produced, where the goods are distributed, and the price of the goods. This command system does not allow for the creativity, wealth, and freedom that capitalism supplies the citizens. Capitalism provides a market system that permits companies to regulate the economies themselves. Capitalism offers the world’s economy the freedom to manage itself, diversify, prosper, fail, and freedom from regulation in order to supply the world based on demand and creativity. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one’s birth or station in life. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards virtue and punishes vice. This applies to both the business executive and the carpenter, the lawyer, and the factory worker. (Thomson) Capitalism is the world’s dominant economic system. Within it, the means of production and distribution are owned by individuals: private ownership and free enterprise are believed to lead to more efficiency, lower prices, be...
Socialism can be defined as an economy wherein all the resources and the means of production of the economy are owned by the community as a whole and there is an equitable distribution of the goods and the wealth. According to Socialism, people of the economy do not live or work in isolation, but they live as a whole in cooperation. In a Socialist form of system, the goods and services are provided through a central system of government ownership and not private ownership. Everything that is being produced by the people in a Socialist system is a social product and, hence, every individual who contributes in the production of goods is entitled to a share of it. Therefore, based on how much a person has contributed in the society, everyone receives
“It has been said that one of the greatest political problems of the time is to reconcile representative institutions with good government.” With this problem in mind, the cabinet form of government, which is nearly synonymous with the parliamentary form of government, has been established to lessen the gap between representative institutions and good government or, if possible, make them one in the same through its unification of powers.
There are so many contemporary theories about form of government for instance, autocracy (rule and authority belongs of experts), democracy (rule by people, for the people).
A government consists of institutions responsible for making collective decisions for society. More narrowly, government refers to the top political level within such institutions. Governance, by contrast, refers to the process of making collective decision, a task in which government may not play a leading, or even any role. There are many things that the government do such as transfer of resources, subsidies with strings attached, regulations, and development and administration. Democracy word is a combination between “demos” which means people and “kratia” implies rule in Greek roots. Democracy is simple which is the rule by the people. The most famous definition of democracy has been given by Abraham Lincoln as “the government
Government is just as involved in the distribution of rewards and the claiming of values as individuals. Its leadership is the nucleus of society. The government allocates resources (money), deciding the fate of such programs as Medicare and welfare reform and the means, usually tax dollars, to pay for these programs. Government is the goal-attaining unit, and its decisions reflect those goals.