Places and Forms of Power - Notion Definition

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Places and forms of power: introduction notion definition

Good morning/afternoon; to start I am going to define the notion places and


forms of power.
In my opinion the two elements that compose this notion are tightly knit;
indeed most of the time whenever we encounter a place of power, it represents
of form of power.
To better explain this I will take the example of political power and religious
power.
For the political power we can first present the types of government that exist
today: for example in North Korea you can find a dictatorship, a totalitarian
regime that inspires fear throughout the world while in the USA you will find a
federal government or in the UK a parliamentary Monarchy that inspire respect
in some degree.
This last political regime is interesting as its source is tightly linked to the
religious power as Kings and Queens derived their political power from their
status of being chosen by God.
Moreover this leads to a very relevant point: the duties and the rights of
citizens as well as their freedoms protected in writings such as the declaration
of human and civil rights. It is interesting to see that in our society, paper holds
such a power that it can hold the binds of our society.
Coming back to the duties of citizens, the act of voting is particularly interesting
as its status can be ambivalent. Indeed is it a right or a duty. According to my
class, it can be seen as both because women fought very hard until 1944 to get
this right so for them it should be a duty.

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