Comparative Government

I know you said not specific countries, but I thought it’d be instructive to contrast the founding charter of Hamas (which instructs their governing) and governing docs of other Sharia-controlled countries, like Saudi Arabia, Iran. Versus slightly moderate, or at least Western-friendly countries like Jordan and, after ousting the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt.

Contrast those countries with Israel’s Proclamation of Independence and her governing bodies. This might help:

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Politics/Constitution.html

It’s interesting to study how 20+ Arab countries handle Sharia law and governing the people v/s the Jewish Law and Israel’s governing. Also, questions like: which countries have been required to hold free elections periodically, but have not? Which countries do?

What’s the difference between Parliamentary gov., different types of republics, the purpose of a country with both presidents and prime ministers (for ex: Russia and Israel do, but they are function differently); the countries that have both parliaments and monarchies: why are some monarchies stronger than others?

What about the tribal nations? The structure of the Commonwealth of England, how do that work?

Just some thoughts and ideas on the subject

Sorry about some my grammar and structure; I was in a hurry and sometimes my phone keyboard self corrects, incorrectly!:)

Anyway, I came across a title when skimming through home school classifieds that may be useful. I looked it up on Amazon and was turned off by one of the two reviewers (an obvious conspiracy theorist). But, the other review was “normal”.

So, I’ll present with an * of caution, or preread may be necessary disclaimer. Hopefully, it’s just a factual presentation if a time period and not itself, a piece of propaganda for the anti-Western Civilization, anti-WASP crowd.

https://www.amazon.com/Imperialism-History-Documents-Pages/dp/0195108019

Also, some exposure to Keynesian economic theory would coincide with Socialist, Communist, and Statist governments, in contrast to the Economists from Austrian theorists for more Liberty governments. I forgot to put in Adam Smith, famous economist.

Currently, MP Daniel Hannon (sp?) is an amazing British speaker on Liberty and Sovereignty. He’s a delight to listen to!

Also, the concept of the “strongman” being brought in or voted in (remember, Hitler was voted in by a majority in their democratic system-not the same as ours, since the populace has no right to actually vote for the president, a presidential election isn’t majority rule, etc.) as it relates to government headship, and being able to recognize them looking back through history (Napoleon, others); Democracy v/s Constitutional Republic (our Founders are good sources for these arguments).

That should set him up for awhile! HTH