Government

What are the four functions of government?

• Keep Order

• Provide Security

• Restrict freedoms

• Provide Public Services

• Guide the Community

The legislative power of government:

• makes laws

• enforces laws

• carries out laws

• interprets laws

Individual rights of the citizen

• Citizens

• Political rights

• Civil liberties

• Politics

People who are legal residents of a country

• Politics

• Aliens

• Citizens

• Americans

The absence of any government

• Oligarchy

• Anarchy

• Autocracy

• Democracy

The rights of citizens to participate in the government

• Civil Liberties

• Politics

• Political Rights

• Citizens

Any kind of government where just one person is in charge

• Oligarchy

• Anarchy

• Autocracy

• Democracy

Which of the following should you look at to figure out what type of government a country has?

• Who holds the power

• How the leader is chosen

• What the title of the leader is

• What rights and freedoms the people have

Which type of government heavily involves some kind of religion?

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Theocracy

• Dictatorship

Which type of government is passed down through birth?

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Theocracy

• Dictatorship