[Topic] How Do We Feel About Authority, Legitimacy & Sovereignty?

Assalamualaikum and good afternoon to all of you !

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I think our group is the first one who submit this assignment. Hehe :D Drum roll please ! Thank you. Hehe :D

Straight to the point, our Political Science lecturer, Miss Fisha had given our first assignment through blogger. She asked us to give our opinion on how do we feel about the Authority, Legitimacy and Sovereignty. So here there are ! :D

According to the facts, Authority is where the leader gave right to give command and his or her action is voluntarily accepted by the people. But sometimes, certain people accept the leader's command because they have to.

We think that the ordinary people like us who does not have the authority should be given the chance to point out our opinion on certain things. The government had given all the facilities to us but are all the facilities that are provided is free? Exactly No !

All the facilities must be paid. Its about the money talk. Based on my own experience, last week, I went to Kuala Terengganu. When I want to park my car, I have to paid the parking charge. If we went to the public toilet, we also have to pay for it. All the taxes must be paid before the dateline. If not, we will be given the fine.

See? We have to spend our money for the things that we actually should not. So in this case, the citizens should be given the authority to speak out our opinion on certain things and the government should consider our opinion.

Based on the Wikipedia, Legitimacy is the popular acceptance of a governing law. But on our understandings, Legitimacy is about the position of one's leader. We think that to make a clear view about the acceptance of the citizens about the leadership of one's legitimated leader, we should have one platform to show our opinion about the leader.

By having the legitimate power, it doesnt mean that the leader use their power excellently. For example, certain of the people disagree with the 1Malaysia because in education, the percentage of election for the non-Malay students in univercity have been increased.

When this matter keep on going, the oppurtinity of Malay students is limited. Eventhough the percent for non-Malay students is small, the Malay students have to compete with them and the others Malay

Sovereignty is defined as supreme power and no one can disobey the leader. The leader can do whatever he or she want. We think the sovereignty should not given 100% to the leader. This is due to the freedom to the leader to do what they want without thinking about the other people.

Not all the leader's command should be followed by the citizens. Sometimes, the leader's command had given trouble to the citizens. I think everyone has experience on this situation ; the citizens have to give the space to Sultan when the Sultan is passing by the road. The citizens have to wait for a long time and certain of their works are disturbed. If we were in urgent, we have to sacrife our time for the Sultan.

In the nutshell, the power that had given to the leader should be practised in the right path. If not, the people will live in chaos. The government sholud think twicely and consider the citizen's demand to make sure the state will be peaceful and blessed. Alhamdulillah ~ :D

p/s : Yeah ! We had done it ! Hehe :D

Done by : Group 1B