Government Lesson Note for Third Term SS1
SCHEME OF WORK
WEEK 1,2&3 DELEGATED LEGISLATION
WEEK 4 CITIZENSHIP
WEEK 5&6: CITIZENSHIP- WAYS OF LOSING CITIZENSHIP
WEEK 7: POLITICAL PARTIES
WEEK 8: PARTY SYSTEM
WEEK 9: PRESSURE GROUPS
WEEK 10: FACTORS WORKING AGAINST THE SUCCESS OF PRESSURE GROUPS
Lesson Note on Government SS1 Third Term
Below are the 2022 complete Government lesson notes for SS1 ThirdTerm
Week 1/2/3
Topic: Delegated Legislation
Meaning of Delegated Legislation
Delegated legislation means the exercise of legislative power by an agency that is subordinate to the legislature. This subordinate body acquires the power from the act of the legislature. Power is transferred from the principal lawmaker to the lower body, which may be the executive, cabinet, council of minister, or a specific administrative agency, by the mechanism of delegation.
TYPES OF DELEGATED LEGISLATION
There are different types of delegated legislation:
- Statutory Instruments
- byelaws
- Orders in Council
- Court Rule committees
- professional regulations. To learn more, click here
Week 4
Topic: Citizenship
Meaning:
Citizenship is the condition or status of being a legally recognized member of the state, being a citizen gives a person rights, duties and obligations.
WAYS OF ACQUIRING CITIZENSHIP
- By Birth: A person is a citizen by birth if either of his parents is a citizen of a country. It can also be explained when a child is born in a particular state i.e. a child born to Nigerian couple in United State is automatically a citizen of the country.
- By Nationalization: One can become a citizen of a country through nationalization. This is possible if he can satisfy the constitutional requirements for nationalization.
- Marriage or Registration: If a woman is married to a person of another nationality, she can acquire the citizenship of her husband’s country through registration. For example, a Nigerian woman married to a British man or a British woman married to a Nigerian. To learn more, click here
Week 5&6
Topic: CITIZENSHIP: Ways Of Losing Citizenship
WAYS OF LOSING CITIZENSHIP
- Through disloyalty: A naturalized citizen can lose his citizenship if his activities are prejudicial to the country’s corporate existence
- Supporting Another country: If a citizen is found supporting another country engaged in war with his country, his citizenship may be deprived him
- Imprisonment: The individual can also lose his citizenship if within a period of say 5-7 years after of becoming nationalized, he gets involved in a criminal case, resulting in his incarceration for some years.
- Treason: The nationalized citizen can equally lose his citizenship, if found guilty of this offence
- False Declaration: If there is a fundamental breach of the citizenship agreement binding him e.g false declaration
- Renouncement: The individual can lose his citizenship by renouncing it. To learn more, click here
Week 7
Topic: Political Parties
Meaning of Political Party:
A political party is an organization of people of like-minds united by the common desire to obtain the mandate of an electoral constituency to form and operate a government.
TYPES OF POLITICAL PARTY
Mass parties: These are political parties that are structured to allow as many citizens as possible to take membership. Membership of mass parties are mainly composed of different sections of the society
Elitist parties: These parties either deliberately or otherwise limit membership to a few elitist in a society and these elitists are of the upper class.
Ideological parties: Some parties are formed mainly to promote a particular ideological belief, a good example is Adolph Hitler national socialist party (NAZI).
Oligarchy parties: These are parties that are formed by and which invariably revolves around certain individuals. To learn more, click here
Week 8
Topic: PARTY SYSTEM
Definition of Party System:
Refers to a political arrangement in which government can only be constituted upon the election of a political party in democratic electoral setting. A party system is a concept in comparative political science concerning the system of government by political parties in a democratic country.
TYPES OF PARTY SYSTEM
ONE PARTY/SINGLE PARTY SYSTEM: It is an arrangement in which only one single party is legally recognized to converse for vote and present candidate for election. It is common feature for communist or socialist country e.g. North Korea, Cuba, China, Kenya e.t.c. To learn more, click here
Week 9
Topic: PRESSURE GROUPS
MEANING OF PRESSURE GROUP
This is an organization of like minds coming together in a formal way with a view of protecting or advancing some particular interest. A pressure group is an organized group that seeks to influence government (public) policy or protect or advance a particular cause or interest. Groups may promote a specific issue and raise it up the political agenda or they may have more general political and ideological objectives in mind when they campaign. To learn more, click here
Week 10
Topic: FACTORS WORKING AGAINST THE SUCCESS OF PRESSURE GROUPS
Most pressure groups have a variety of goals and make a variety of compromises as part of their on-going negotiations and campaigning. For some groups, success may just be ensuring that rival groups do not achieve some of their objectives.
Political culture
This is the extent to which pressure group activity is regarded as legitimate. In Britain, it is generally accepted that pressure groups have a role to play in the political process.
Opposing groups
These can cancel each other out – or at least reduce the impact of each other’s activities. Obvious examples might be the pro- and anti-abortion campaigns or the pro- and anti-hunting groups. To learn more, click here
