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2013 National Champions!. Government and State. What is government and what is its purpose?. Words to know. Government Public policy Legislative power Executive power Judicial power Constitution Dictatorship Democracy State Sovereign . Definition of a Government
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Government and State What is government and what is its purpose?
Words to know • Government • Public policy • Legislative power • Executive power • Judicial power • Constitution • Dictatorship • Democracy • State • Sovereign • Definition of a Government • Characteristics of a state • Purposes of Government
Facts • Society makes and enforces public policies through the institution of gov • A state has a population, a defined territory, sovereignty, and a gov. • Basic concepts of American gov evolved from the social contract theory • The preamble of the Constitution established the basic goals of American Gov.
What is the Social contract? • This is the belief that the state only exists to serve the will of the people, and they are the source of all political power enjoyed by the state. They can choose to give or withhold this power. • Thomas Hobbes stated people give the state power • Jean-Jacques Rousseau then stated people have “popular sovereignty” or the real power
Absolute power corrupts absolutely… dictatorship despotism tyranny, the wielding of power through cruelty and terror. It's often used in reference to a country that's ruled by a dictator, but despotism can describe any situation characterized by oppression and threats. • absolute power — one person who takes control — of a political situation, a family, a classroom or even a camping expedition. In government, a dictatorship leaves no room for input from anyone who is not the top person. The noun comes from the late 14th century Latin word, dictare, which means to "repeat or say often." In a dictatorship, one person keeps repeating the same command: "My way or the highway."
Robert Mugabe • Vlad III • Kim Jong-Il • Idi Amin Dada • Vladimir Lenin • Emperor Hirohito • Koki Hirota • Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev • Chiang Kai-shek • Kaiser Wilhelm II • Ho Chi Minh • Yakubu Gowon • Mengistu Haile Mariam • Kim Il Sung • Saddam Hussein • Ismail Enver Pasha • Omar al-Bashir • Pol Pot • YahyaKhan • Nicholas II • Hideki Tojo • Josef Stalin • Leopold II • Adolf Hitler • #1 -Mao Zedong History’s Top 25 Dictators…. You will create a facebook profile for the following Dictators. They need a friends list, status update, birthday, photos etc. One of their dictator friends should share a Political cartoon
3 basic powers of Gov • Executive- President and head of state- executes laws • Legislative- Congress creates laws • Judicial- Supreme Court interprets laws and decides if they are constitutional
What makes a State? • Every state has 4 characteristics • 1. Population • 2. Territory • 3. Sovereignty • 4. Government
Origin of State • Force Theory: State is born from force, a group took over and forces all to submit, then elements of a state exist • Evolutionary theory- develops naturally • Divine right- God Chose you • Social Contract – an agreement to give the state as much power as needed • Question: Which theory is correct and why?
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." The Preamble Look at the preamble, what does it say to you?
