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Society and ME
| 5.7 |
Common component- Government & laws
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| Laws and government (executive power) have always been common components of society. | ||
| While military power can sustain a temporary invasion, it has always been the power of laws and government to build, construct and allocate limited resources that has determined the longevity of societies and empires. | ||
| Even societies with vast military machines such as the Soviet Empire of the 20th century was ultimately unsustainable because it was based on such poor laws and government. In contrast, well constructed laws and governments such as the Roman Empire was able to last over 400 effective years. Most recently, the longest lasting laws and governments are The United Kingdom, The United States of America, Frence Republic and Australia. | ||
| The constitution of a society | ||
| Of all the laws that define and hold a society together as one, it is the constitution that is most important. | ||
| The constitution is the document which is the first to define the state as one, to name its primary institutions, state the legitimacy and source of power and sustainment of power. It is the primary law of all laws. | ||
| In older societies, such documents were principally modeled around essential sets of rules or commandments. Then in the 17th and 18th century, the notion of a document been capable of defining a nation as a democratic model was first considered possible. | ||
| Since then all societies whether corrupt, dictatorships or democratically elected government are all based on some kind of constitutional document. | ||
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