GOVERNMENT AND THE STATE

What is Government?

OBJECTIVES

Students will define government and functions of government.

Students will describe sovereignty and implications of freedoms

VOCABULARY

government: institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies.

constitution: body of fundamental laws that detail the principles, structures and processes of a government.

democracy: government where the responsibility for the use of power rests with the majority of the people.

state: a body of people, living in a defined territory, organized with a government, with the power to enforce law

sovereignty: the state’s supreme and absolute power within its own territory.

exist to provide a of and to groups of people

, through , propose that is set as a

US policy: , US Forces

public policy: maintenance, age

public policy: budget, speed

Power: power to make and to public

Power: power to , and law

Power: power to laws, determine their and to disputes

These powers are and in a

OF

arise when a person or small take these powers and policy; not held to the of the people

is when the of the people is carried out by a to those people

The of the people keep the to setting that is with their

THE

Often times we say ‘ ’ or ‘ ’

More , a body of who are living in a defined , organized with the power to enforce law is a

‘ ’ is a term, referring to a particular , or area of

‘ ’ refers to an definition of or other large groups of people

FOUR : the number of people who the state

: the land, with its recognized , that a state exists on

: the and absolute the state within its territory

: the institution through which makes and its public policy

FOUNDING

and are two factors that are given.

The is the end product of the states’

The issue of where is has driven and thinkers for of years

(380 BC): - man is and blind. It is the of those who have broken free of the of and found the way to the to help those still stuck in

(1651 AD): - argued that Man is little better than in the . exists to provide from “continual fear and danger of violent death and life [would be] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

LEVIATHAN (

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

JOHN

argued that people do not owe their to any government that does not the best interests of those people. In fact, it is the of the people to an government.