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Faculty of Arts. 57
POLITICS.
Pass.
(1) AIm and Scope of Politics: its relation to History
and Ethics.
(2) The State: its nature, origin and end. The State
as a moral individual. :\J ass psychology and
ethics. Autonomy, political and moral.
(3) Authority of the State. Properties of authority.
State authority and civic duty. Rebellion.
Source of authority. Scope of authority. Civil
and religious liberty. Industrial freedom. Mili·
tarism. Socialism.
(4) The people. Question of citizenship and of aliens.
Nationality as a formative principle of the Rtate.
Nature of nationality and its ultimate yalues.
Area of government. Local autonomy.
(5) Law: its various kinds and their relations. Laws
of State; their end, conditions ,md binding
force.
trol.
Constitutional la,,", its source and con·
(6) Forms of government: Representatiye government
Questions of electorates, modes of eledion, the
rrferendllnl, initiative and recall.
(7) FUBctions of government: legislative, executive
and judicial. Two-chamber system. Cabinet
government.
Taxation.
Civil service and administration,
(8) The St·ate in its relation to other £tates. War
and peace. Right of conquest. Federation of
states. Imperialism. The Ethnarchy.
(9) Existing forms of government and administration
in Great Britain, United States, France, Germany,
Switzerland, Belgium and Italy.
Honours.
The same, but in greater detail and with fuller
treatment of controversies.
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