What is the purpose?

1. What is the purpose? • What is it that you SHOULD learn from a government course? • WHY? • On a scale of 1-10, how much would you say you know about government already?

2. Focus questions 1-1 ( p. 5)ALWAYS write questions and answers in spiral (back side of page). • What are the four main purposes of government? • How do various theories explain the origin of government? • What were the major intellectual, philosophical, political, and religious traditions that influenced the American founders?

3. Focus questions 1-2 ( p. 12)ALWAYS write questions and answers in spiral (back side of page). • What are the similarities and differences between a unitary government and a federal government system? • What are the main purposes of a constitution? • The US Constitution is the oldest written constitution still in use. What does this imply about the stability of other world governments? Why?

4. Focus questions 1-3 ( p. 18)ALWAYS write questions and answers in spiral (back side of page). • What are the main characteristics of a democracy? • How does a representative democracy provide a good government for diverse peoples? • Describe autocracy, monarchy, and oligarchy. • What is a republic? How does this term pertain to our government?

5. FOUNDATIONS OF US GOVERNMENT

6. AP Focus questions 1-1ALWAYS write questions and answers in spiral (back side of page). • Compare/contrast public and private goods. • Describe the balance between majority rule vs. minority rights. • What were the major intellectual, philosophical, political, and religious traditions that influenced the American founders?

7. Focus questions Ch2 ( pp. 35-58)ALWAYS write questions and answers in spiral (back side of page). • What events of the early American colonial experience led colonists to believe they would have representative government? • Which factors caused the British to allow the colonists to operate with little interference between 1607 and 1763? • Compare and contrast the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution. • What was the Connecticut Compromise?

9. AP focus questions 2-3 ALWAYS write questions and answers in spiral (back side of page). • What events of the early American colonial experience led colonists to believe they would have representative government? • Which factors caused the British to allow the colonists to operate with little interference between 1607 and 1763? • Compare and contrast the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution. • What was the Connecticut Compromise?

10. Focus questions 1-1 ( p. 5)ALWAYS write questions and answers in spiral (back side of page). • What are the four main purposes of government? • How do various theories explain the origin of government? • What were the major intellectual, philosophical, political, and religious traditions that influenced the American founders?

11. AP Focus questions 1-2(Chapter 1 Sections 2-3). • What are the similarities and differences between a unitary government and a federal government system? • What does the term ‘politics’ mean? How would you describe politics in America? • Describe or diagram the policymaking system. • Why is free enterprise conducive to the growth of a democracy?

12. PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT • What is anarchy? • Is anarchy really cool?

13. Pick a side: • Which do you feel BEST describes the overall development of world governments? • Force Theory • Evolution Theory

14. What are we actually going to learn? • Constitution • Founding • Theory • American Exceptionalism • Current events/politics

15. What are the essentials of getting through all of this? • BE HERE. The road to graduation goes through this course!!!! • Be prepared. • Have an electronic device that is internet-ready…we use them. • Always have your interactive notebook and pens/pencils.

17. PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT • Government: institution through which society makes and enforces public policy

18. PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT • Public policies: all those things a government decides to do • Examples: wage war, income tax, subsidize Miss USA

19. THE STATE • The state: group of people, defined territory, organized politically-some form of gvt • 4 characteristics: population, territory, sovereignty, government

20. THE STATE • Sovereignty: supreme and absolute power within state • Where it is located determines type of gvt • Examples

21. ORIGINS OF THE STATE • Force Theory: person or group claimed control over area, forced all to submit • When 4 basic characteristics met, state emerges

22. ORIGINS OF THE STATE • Evolutionary Theory: state developed naturally out of family • Network of relatives-clan • Family-smallest political unit

23. ORIGINS OF THE STATE • Divine Right Theory: God or gods create state and ruler or ruling class, family, etc.

24. ORIGINS OF THE STATE • Social Contract Theory, Thomas Hobbes: state of nature “nasty, brutish, and short” • People want safety

25. Social Contract Theory • To be safer, you must give up freedom • To be more free, you must give up safety

26. Social Contract Theory • Social Contract: society gives up some freedom to be safe • State arose out of voluntary act of free people

27. Social Contract Theory • People are the sole source of power • John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson

29. Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration

30. PURPOSE OF GVT • Preamble to Constitution • More Perfect Union • Establish Justice • Insure Domestic Tranquility • Provide for Common Defense

31. PURPOSE OF GVT • Promote the General Welfare • Secure the Blessings of Liberty

32. FORMS OF GVT • Classified in 3 ways

33. 1. Who may Participate • Democracy: people hold the power • Autocracy: One person holds power-king, dictator • Oligarchy: small group holds power-Communist China

34. 2. Where Power is Held • Unitary Gvt: Single, central agency holds power • Federal Gvt: Power divided central and local gvt • Confederation: alliance independent states

35. 3. Relationship Between Executive and Legislative • Presidential Gvt: divides power between executive and legislative • Parliamentary Gvt: Legislative Br supreme, chooses executive branch

36. PRESIDENTIAL GVT

37. PARLIAMENTARY GVT

38. FILM CLIP

41. STOP

42. Concepts of Democracy

43. Concepts of Democracy • 1. Each person has value • 2. All are created equal • 3. Majority rule, minority rights

44. Concepts of Democracy • 4. Compromise competing interests • 5. Individual must have as much freedom as possible

45. Concepts of Democracy • Democracy- seen in economic system • Free Enterprise System: the people make the choices through supply and demand

46. POLITICAL BEGINNINGS • Us Gvt based on concepts of English Gvt • English colonists lived as English citizens, expected rights of full citizenship

47. Focus questions 2-1(Chapter 2 Sections 1-3). • Describe the English Bill of Rights and how it influenced our founding documents. • What is the separation of powers and why is it important? • Compare/contrast the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution.

48. ENGLISH CONCEPTS OF GVT • Ordered Gvt: orderly regulation of gvt to make society function • Limited Gvt: no one is above law; individual rights

49. ENGLISH CONCEPTS OF GVT • Representative Gvt: gvt should serve the will of the people

50. ENGLISH GVT EVOLVES • Magna Carta, 1215: King (John) does not have total power; right of trial by jury; due process