Chapter 1 Government Study Guide

What is a totalitarian government?

• A government where one person holds all three of the governmental powers. They are free to act without regard for the will of the people.

• Supreme political authority rests with the people. People hold the power and the government is only conducted with the consent of the people.

• Government is more important than its citizens. Controls all aspects of its citizens' lives.

• Power is held by few self-appointed powerful people at the top level of government.

What is an example of a totalitarian government?

• Mexico

• Russia

• North Korea

• United Kingdom

What is Oligarchy?

• Power is held by a few self-appointed powerful people at the top level of government

• Type of government where one person may weld unlimited power.

• Supreme political authority rests with the people. The people hold the sovereign power and government is conducted only by consent of the people.

• Type of government where one person holds all three of the governmental powers. They are free to act without regard for the will of the people.

What are the five functions of Government?

• Provide leadership

  Giving money

  Providing public services

  National Security

  Economic Security

• No Leadership

  No Order

  Public Services

  National Security

  Dictatorship

• Leadership

  Maintaining Order

  Providing Public Services

  Providing National Security

  Providing Economic Security

• Economic Security

  No Leadership

  Maintaining Order

  National Security

  Providing Public Services.

Define Providing Leadership

• Meadows is ALWAYS in Charge

• Government officials make decisions on behalf of the citizens they represent

• Government make decisions to benefit them and not the people.

• Government makes decisions to make all adults in charge.

Define Maintaining Order

• The government try to control and contain conflict between people by placing limits on what people are allowed to do.

• The government allows citizens to do whatever they want.

• The government makes all the decisions and say NO to everything.

• The government does nothing.

Define Providing Services

• They are there just to help

• Services are free and are optional

• Government creates schools, build roads and bridges, and provide other services that citizens could not do on their own.

• Government creates services that cost lots of money and are not for the poor

Define National Security

• Government is to protect its citizens from attacks from other countries or terrorist organizations.

• Government is to protect its citizens against crimes in their own towns and cities

• Government is to protect their citizens from each other

• Government is not here to protect its citizens.

Define Economic Security

• Policies to keep our economy down

• The government sets policies to protect the country's economic security

• Government sets policies to protect the citizens from each other

• Government sets policies to protect the country from its citizens.

What is "state"?

• Where people live...California

• A body of people living in a defined territory that has a government and power to enforce laws.

• Body of people living in an area without a government.

• A place that is just there.