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Who Rules?

Who Rules?. Citizen Participation. Distributed Summarizing:. With a seat partner, determine which diagram most likely represents each type of government in terms of citizen participation. Be ready to support your answer. Distributed Summarizing:.

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Who Rules?

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  1. Who Rules? Citizen Participation

  2. Distributed Summarizing: With a seat partner, determine which diagram most likely represents each type of government in terms of citizen participation. Be ready to support your answer.

  3. Distributed Summarizing: With a seat partner, determine which diagram below represents each type of government in terms of citizen participation. Be ready to support your answer.

  4. Forms of Government When people decide to form the social contracts that we call governments, they make many different decisions about how their government will look. The amount of participation the citizens have determines the structure of the government. President or King? Rule by few or rule by all? Hold elections? Where do the rulers get their power?

  5. Democracy Any form of government in which political power is exercised by all citizens, either directly or through their elected representatives. There are two kinds of Democracies… Direct! Representative!

  6. Direct Democracy • All citizens participate in government. • There are no representatives in government: The citizens vote on everything! • All citizens can create public policy if they want to. • Example: In ancient Athens, Greece, they held assemblies where citizens voted to pass laws.

  7. Representative Democracy • Like direct democracy, all citizens participate in government • People elect representatives who vote on laws for the citizens • Representatives answer to the people through regular elections • Representatives are also usually held accountable by a constitution

  8. Fill in the blanks to review DEMOCRACY!

  9. The two forms of democracy are __________ and ___________________. direct representative

  10. In a democracy, all __________ participate in government. citizens

  11. All citizens vote on everything in a ______________________. direct democracy

  12. In a direct democracy, there are no ________________ in the government. representatives

  13. In a representative democracy, the representatives answer to the people through ______________________. regular elections

  14. Now that we’ve talked about DIRECT DEMOCRACY! And REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY! we can move on to forms of government where only one person is in control…

  15. Autocracy A form of government in which political power is controlled by oneindividual such as a monarch, dictator, emperor, etc. We’re going to talk about two kinds of autocracy… Monarchs! Dictators!

  16. Monarchy • Rule by kings, queens, princes, and princesses… sometimes by other names, but always MONARCHS! • Leaders usually gain their power because their parents were rulers too. • Some modern monarchies like Spain and Japan have constitutions.

  17. Dictatorship • In a dictatorship, power is not inherited, but is acquired by force (military or political) • Dictators have absolute control over the lives of their citizens and usually people are not allowed to voice their negative opinions • North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Il is considered a dictator

  18. What else? We’ve talked about DEMOCRACIES… Democracy is… rule by the people!

  19. What else? … and AUTOCRACIES… Autocracy is… … rule by one!

  20. What else? … but what other forms of government are there? What if, instead of everyone or just one person, a few people got together to rule a nation? Rule by Few!

  21. Oligarchy • “Rule by few” • Power can be based on several things: • Military strength = Military Junta • Family power = Aristocracy • Religious control = Theocratic Oligarchy • Oligarchies can often come from or lead to other forms of government (like autocracies)

  22. Theocracy • “Theo” means “god” in Greek… so if a government is THEO-cratic that means it is ruled by… That’s right! A god or higher power! • Leaders (autocraticor oligarchic) are usually religious leaders and society uses religious law to settle its disputes • Example: The Islamic Republic of Iran is a modern theocracy that uses the holy Islamic book, The Qur’an, as its guide.

  23. Anarchy • No government at all… WAIT! Then who makes and enforces laws?

  24. Anarchy • No government at all… • In an anarchy there is no government to make or enforce laws. What do you think that would be like?

  25. Wow! There are so many forms of government! And remember there are also combinations… What is government ruled by GOD and a FEW people called?

  26. WHEW! We had better review… Time for some “A or B!”

  27. Democracy A B Rule by everyone Rule by no one

  28. Direct Democracy A B Citizens elect people to vote All citizens vote on everything

  29. Representative Democracy A B Representatives are appointed Representativesare elected

  30. Autocracy A B Rule by one Rule by few

  31. Monarchy A B Never have constitutions Power is inherited

  32. Dictatorship A B Always protect freedom of speech Have total control

  33. Oligarchy A B Power is always inherited Come in many forms

  34. Anarchy A B Everyone does what they want Everyone follows the laws

  35. Now, review your summarizer along with your teacher!

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