Forms of Government

Chapter 1 Lesson 4

The Importance of Government• Keep Order and Provide Security

– Laws help resolve or find a solution to problems– Enforce laws they make– Need for security- protections from attacks

• Provide Services– Libraries, Schools, Hospitals, and Parks– Build and repair streets and bridges– Collect garbage and deliver the mail– Local Govt (police/fire departments)– State (license drivers and doctors) (food, monetary support, housing,

healthcare, and special programs for people with disabilities– Federal (good, medicines, and products are safe)

• Guide the Community– Public policy

Levels of Government• Federal or National

– Highest authority over citizens– Makes and enforces laws for the entire country– Basic rules for Citizenship

• State– Marriage laws, make rules for schooling, and hold elections– Manage public health and safety – Build roads and bridges

• Local– Schools, police and fire departments, emergency medical

services, and local courts– Outdoor lighting and removing snow from the streets

Exit Slip- Tuesday

• What would happen if there was no government in the United States?

• What does the U.S. government and local government make possible for the people?

Types of Government• Democratic– Representative Democracy (USA)• Citizens choose a group of people to represent them, make

laws, and govern on their behalf– Republic» Role in choosing the person to who will be the head of

the state (President)– Constitutional Monarchy» Hereditary ruler (King/Queen)» Power is limited by country’s constitution» Prime Minister heads the government

*Majority Rule

Types of Government• Authoritarian– Power is held by a person or a group not accountable to the

people– Monarchy (Ex King Saudi Arabia- supposed to follow Islamic

law)– Dictatorship( Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Cuba, N. Korea, and

Myanmar)• Totalitarian rule- government controls all aspects of life

– Take away individual freedom– Ideology– controls the media and uses scare tactics

• Socialism– Society controls all aspects of the economy– Government instead of private owner decides what items the industries

produce and what jobs workers will have

Kim Jong-un

Castro

U Ne Win

Exit Slip- Wednesday

• What is the difference between a democratic government and an authoritarian government?

• How would you feel if we were a dictatorship (examples of how it would effect you)