GOVERNMENT

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GOVERNMENT

• CHAPTER 1 1-2
• Principles Formation of Government

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Government

• Institution in which we make and enforce public
  policies.
• Has 3 powers
• Legislative make laws
• Executive enforce laws
• Judicial interpret laws

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Vocabulary

• State
• Territory
• Government
• Sovereign
• People
• Example Canada
• Nation
• Group of people
• Common bond race, language, religion
• Example Cherokee Nation

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Vocabulary

• Nation-state
• The group of people that are united live in their
  own sovereign state.
• Example Japan
• Stateless-nation
• The group of people that are united do not have a
  country to call their own.
• Example Palestine

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Theories on how governments came about

• Evolutionary
• Evolved from the heads of families
• Examples elders, tribal chiefs, etc.
• Force
• Leaders took control by force
• Examples dictatorships, Cuba/Castro
• Divine Right
• God/The Gods choose the leaders or they are
  descendants of the Gods.
• Examples Monarchs (Pharoahs, Kings, Tsars, etc.)

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Theories on how governments came about

• Social Contract
• Thomas Hobbes John Locke
• The people surrendered some of their own
  power/rights in exchange for the protection/laws
  of the government.
• Examples democracies,United States

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Purposes of Government

• Maintain Social Order

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Purposes of Government

• Providing Public services

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Purposes of Government

• Providing national security

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Purposes of Government

• Make economic decisions