Classwork Exercise and Series (Civic Education-SS1): Importance Of Constituted Authority

 Importance of Constituted Authority.

The importance of constituted authority cannot be overemphasize. Some of the points below are the importance of constituted authority:

1. protection of citizens: The government ensures that all the citizens are protected from both internal and external danger. They ensure all citizens are free from terrorism.
2. Development of the society: Constituted authorities joins hands together to bring about development in the society through maintenance of law and order.
3. Religious authority helps followers to be closer to God and helps the followers to fear God.
4. Constituted authorities are responsible for the smooth running of the society.
5. They ensure the people lives in peace with one another,
6. They ensure orderliness in the state and help to settle dispute in the society.
7. They also help to make policies and decisions to achieve the set goals.

Likely Problems of Constituted Authorities

1. Inability to delegate power: when leaders finds it difficult to delegate power to their subordinate it becomes a problem which means he is not creating room for others to grow
2. Not providing feed backs: Leaders need to pass information to those he is leading
3. Failure to define goals: Any constituted authority should define his goal so that followers can work along with him to achieve the set or defined goals
4. Embezzling of funds

Test and Exercise

1. All of these are the major importance of constituted authorities except (a)creation of funds for embezzlement (b) protection of citizens (c)maintenance of law and order (d)development of the society.
   
2. Leadership is important in all areas of parastatals, true/false.
   
3. The president of a country is an example of (a)traditional constituted authority (b)Organizational constituted authority (c)Government constituted authority (d)religious constituted authority.an
   
4. A bad leader will (a)love his followers (b)delegate power to his followers (c)embezzle the public funds (d)help to settle disputes among members.
   
5. Some of these are the likely problems of constituted authority (a)corruption (b)refusal to delegate power (c)failure to define goals (d)respect for followers right.