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• Unitary Government • When the Central Government holds the power

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• Authoritarian Government

• A Government where power is NOT limited

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• Democracy • A Government where people hold the power through voting

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• 3 Economic Questions

• What to Produce?• How to Produce?• For Whom to

Produce?

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• Anarchy • Chaos or lack of Government

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• 4 types of economies – Market – Command – Traditional – Mixed Market

• Market– Buys and sellers have

power with no gov’t regulations

• Command – Gov’t controlled

• Traditional – Values the past

• Mixed – Aspects of each with

gov’t regulations

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• Monarchy • When a King or Queen has the power

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• Oligarchy • When a few people hold the power

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• Dictatorship • When one person holds all the power and controls all aspects of a person life. Usually rights are denied to citizens

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• Democracies – Direct – Representative

• Direct – When people vote for

every issue

• Representative – When people vote for

people to make their decisions for them

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• Opportunity Cost • What you give up when a decision is made.

• = Opportunity Lost

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• Purposes of Gov’t • E• S• P• N

• E – Economic decisions – Ex: taxes, printing money

• S – Social Order – Ex: police officers

• P- Public Services – Ex: Schools, Trash

Collection

• N- National Security – Ex: Military

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• Confederacy • When states hold the power

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• Federalism • When Local, State, & National Governments share power

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• Preamble of the Constitution

• Introduction to the Constitution that states its goals

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• Due Process • Your rights when you get arrested and go to court

• Example: trial by jury, lawyer.

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• 1st Amendment – R– A– P– P– S

– Religion – Assembly – Petition – Press– Speech

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• Limits of 1st amendment

• Can not threaten people or put people in danger

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• Problems with Articles of Confederation

• Too weak • No central

Government

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• Powers – Expressed/Delegated

– Implied

– Denied

– Inherent

– Written in Constitution

– Not written

– Things Gov’t can not do

– Things Gov’t can do because they are a Gov’t

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• Federalism

• Reserved Powers

• Concurrent Powers

• When National, States, & Local Gov’t work together

• Powers saved for only the States

• Powers that National & State Gov’t have at the same time

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• Elastic Clause

• Supremacy Clause

• Allows congress to stretch Constitution

• Gives us out Implied Powers

• The National Gov’t has power over the States

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• Protests– Boycott

– Picket

– Petition

– Stop buying a product

– Stand outside a business or building with signs as a group

– A letter expressing your opinion with peoples signatures

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• What is an Amendment?

• A Change to the Constitution

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• What are the 1st Ten amendments called?

• Bill of Rights

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You need to study these note cards and

your old ones!!!Get with a partner and

start to quiz each other using both sets

of cards!!!