National Government Body

A National Government Body is a government organization that enforces political authority (over a population within a territory).

• AKA: State Body, Central Government, Government Organ, State Polity.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) have Constitutional Powers, through legal mandates.
  • It can (typically) have Monopoly on Violence, within its territorial jurisdiction.
  • It can (typically) maintain Civil Rule, over its national population.
  • It can (typically) be composed of National Legislative Government, National Executive Government, and National Judicial Government.
  • It can (typically) have State Capacity, for governance functions.
  • It can (often) implement National Policy, through executive actions.
  • It can (often) manage Public Services, for national population.
  • It can (often) enforce National Laws, through regulatory power.
  • It can (often) maintain Civil Authority, through government institutions.
  • It can (often) interact with other National Government Bodies.
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  • It can range from being a Central Authority to being a Subsidiary Body, depending on its institutional role.
  • It can range from being a Constitutional Organ to being an Administrative Agency, depending on its legal status.
  • It can range from being a Policy-Making Body to being an Implementation Body, depending on its function type.
  • It can range from being a Professional Institution to being a Political Body, depending on its appointment basis.
  • It can range from being a Permanent Body to being a Temporary Commission, depending on its temporal status.
  • It can range from being a Single Function Body to being a Multi-Purpose Agency, depending on its scope breadth.
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• Examples:
  • Democratic Government Bodies, such as:
    • U.S. National Government Body (1789-present), with federal system.
    • German Government (1949-present), with parliamentary democracy.
    • Canadian Government (1867-present), with constitutional monarchy.
  • Authoritarian Government Bodies, such as:
    • Chinese Government, with single-party system.
    • Iranian Government, with theocratic structure.
  • Small State Government Bodies, such as:
    • San Marino Government, as ancient republic.
    • Israeli Government, in modern state.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Provincial Governments lacking national scope.
  • Municipal Governments with local jurisdiction.
  • International Organizations beyond national authority.
  • Non-Governmental Entities without state power.
• See: Government Structure, State Institution, Public Administration, National Authority, Constitutional System, Bureaucratic Organization, Monopoly on Violence, Diplomatic Recognition, Body Politic, Civil Authority, Political Elite, Social Contract Model, System of Government, State Capacity, Civil Rule.

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References

2023

• (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(polity) Retrieved:2023-10-11.
  • A state is a centralized political organization that imposes and enforces rules over a population within a territory. Definitions of a state are disputed. One widely used definition comes from the sociologist Max Weber: a "state" is a polity that maintains a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, although other definitions are common. Absence of a state does not preclude the existence of a society, such as stateless societies like the Haudenosaunee Confederacy that "do not have either purely or even primarily political institutions or roles". The level of governance of a state, government being considered to form the fundamental apparatus of contemporary states, is used to determine whether it has failed. Most often, a country has a single state, with various administrative divisions. It is a unitary state or a federal union; in the latter type, the term "state" is sometimes used to refer to the federated polities that make up the federation. (Other terms that are used in such federal systems may include "province", "region" or other terms.) Most of the human population has existed within a state system for millennia; however, for most of prehistory people lived in stateless societies. The earliest forms of states arose about 5,500 years ago as governments gained state capacity in conjunction with rapid growth of cities, invention of writing and codification of new forms of religion. Over time, a variety of forms of states developed, which used many different justifications for their existence (such as divine right, the theory of the social contract, etc.). Today, the modern nation state is the predominant form of state to which people are subject. Sovereign states have sovereignty; any ingroup's claim to have a state faces some practical limits via the degree to which other states recognize them as such.

2017

• (McElvaine, 2017) ⇒ Robert S. McElvaine. (2017). “I’m a Depression historian. The GOP tax bill is straight out of 1929.” In: The Washington Post, November 30 at 9:17 AM
  • QUOTE: “There are two ideas of government,” William Jennings Bryan declared in his 1896 “Cross of Gold” speech. “There are those who believe that if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them.”

2016

• (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Government Retrieved:2016-10-6.
  • National Government may refer to:
    • Central government in a unitary state, or a country that does not give significant power to regional divisions
    • Federal government is a federal state, or a country that give significant power to regional divisions

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