Fiche Places and forms of power

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Fiche sur le thème "places and forms of power" pour le baccaulauréat d'Anglais!

In politics and social science, power is the ability to influence the behavior of people by accepting rules, regulations, laws. This helps to create social cohesion but can also lead to conflicts and tensions. Even when authority seems absolute, there are always counter-powers which question it. We will study the lobbying here ; it is a group of pressure that tries to influence these laws and this balance.
How did the lobbying power represents the notion places and forms of power ?
First we'll see what that consists in, next the origin (if it is a right) and the limits

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[...] The limits of this power : Instrumentalization of this right ? And at end, we will see that this right can have limits. In some case, this right is used unwisely and serve bad causes. The cartoons we saw permitted to us to understand this. These cartoons are dealing with the issue of gun control in the USA. They uses the 2d amendment as justification, that is a text that give the right to american citizens to help and bear arms. [...]

[...] The lobbying is officially a right and is not necessarily evil. The sound document we studied permitted to us to understand the origin of the lobbying power and in what this is not necessarily evil. As a matter of fact, the two men reminds the importance that lobbying used to have with Congress in the legislation and federal government, even if the lobbying is even older and was despised by the public opinion. They talked about an article from Dave Ruse, in which this one underlines the fact that some people want the lobbying power to become illegal. [...]

[...] More generally, the lobbying power have limits if it makes in danger the freedom of people and their security. Conclusion : All in all, we understood first what is the lobbying power, next that it is not necessarily bad because at first it was a right, and so that he can be used wisely, and we saw at the end the limits this power could have with his instrumentalization. It illustrates the notion places and forms of power with the companies and the form of power that is the lobbying. [...]

[...] We will study the lobbying here ; it is a group of pressure that tries to influence these laws and this balance. How did the lobbying power represents the notion places and forms of power ? First we'll see what that consists in, next the origin (if it is a right) and the limits. The lobbying : What it is ? First we'll study what the lobbying consists in. It is the act of attempting to influence business and government leaders to create legislation or conduct an activity that will help a particular organization. [...]

[...] Too, he goes to TV in which he said that there were not interest by killing people but to keep them « alive and smoking ». Their only goal is to spread their business and keep it alive whatever it costs. They have a huge place in our society. It illustrates well the notion with places as the companies and the power of lobbying. We understand here what it consists in : make pressure in order to influence legislators on a particular issue. [...]