Nina was home not feeling too well today. We connected through Teams for our last period class, but the connection was awful! We kept losing connection and we tried for the duration of the period to get back on line with each other - to no avail. We finally had to resort to communicating through Teams with each other through our phones as our computers kept going on and offline. We both kept trying to establish and maintain an online connection with each other. This literally took almost all of 7th period! We both truly spent 45 minutes trying to establish a clear and lasting connection with each other through Teams, but it was not to be. It was disappointing and I look forward to hopefully seeing Nina back in school tomorrow.
Liberalism is a theory that has affected political, social, economic, and other fields. It was conceived of by John Locke in Two Treatises on Government. It is the ideological foundation behind the concepts of liberty, equality, and free markets. Liberalism has had significant impacts on economic theory and politics and is a significant part of the United States government. Political liberalism is based on the ''harm principle'' as used by John Stuart Mill. It is likely the most popular and applied political ideology in the world. The central tenets of liberalism include: Liberty, Equality, Economic freedom, Rule of law, Limited government, Democratic government.
Political liberalism is a theory which states that limited government should have as its primary purpose the defense and procurement of the natural rights of its citizens. Both Democratic and Republican parties adhere to the tenets of liberalism. The chief difference between the different parties that adhere to liberalism is deciding what is a positive right.
Today we began a unit on belief systems and political ideologies. A political ideology is a unifying belief about political theory and policy. The concept of political ideologies important to understand because of its influence over government structure and policy development. Political ideology also unifies the thoughts of an individual and affects specific political views. Some common political ideologies are liberalism and conservatism. Because political ideology can be such a powerful form of national and individual identity, it can be used to manipulate people with that identity.
Today we examined the concept of independent legislatures and looked at some ways legislative powers can be constrained in a number of governments around the world. We covered the basic structure and skill functions of legislative systems in China, Iran, the U.K. and Mexico.
In today's class we investigated how the structure and functions of legislative systems reflect the allocation of power within political systems through a closer look at the governments in China and Iran.
This was Nina's 23rd missed class. She was here this morning, but apparently left early around lunch. Her lesson for today was moved to Friday, when we have our next class.
Today we looked at Legislative term limits. We will evaluated how the structure and functions of legislative systems reflect the allocation of power within political systems through a closer look at Nigeria and Mexico.
