Government Midterm 2022-23

What is government?

• An elected group of people who make decisions for the people who elected them

• Institutions that exist to tell us what we can and cannot do

• Institution through which society makes and enforces its public policies

• An elected group of people who speak for us and interact with other countries

What are public policies?

• All the things the government decides to do

• All the policies that the public supports

• All laws created by the government that affect the people

• All laws that state what we are allowed and not allowed to do in public

What is legislative power?

• Power to enforce laws

• Power to create laws

• Power to interpret laws

What is executive power?

• Power to enforce laws

• Power to create laws

• Power to interpret laws

What is judicial power?

• Power to enforce laws

• Power to create laws

• Power to interpret laws

What is a dictatorship?

• When the responsibility of the exercise of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers are based upon religion

• When the responsibility of the exercise of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers rests with a king or queen

• When the responsibility of the exercise of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers rests with a majority of the people

• When the ultimate responsibility of the executive, legislative, and judicial powers are held by a single person or a small group

What is a democracy?

• When the responsibility of the exercise of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers are based upon religion

• When the responsibility of the exercise of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers rests with a king or queen

• When the responsibility of the exercise of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers rests with a majority of the people

• When the ultimate responsibility of the executive, legislative, and judicial powers are held by a single person or a small group

In an indirect democracy...

• A small group of persons, chosen by the people to act as their representative, expresses the popular will

• Will of the people is translated into public policy (law) by the people themselves in a mass meeting

What is a state?

• Group of people living in a defined place, with politics, and the power to make/enforce laws without the consent of higher authority

• The government between federal and local within the United States

• A solid, liquid, or gas

When considering the four requirements to make a state: What does the "P" stand for in P.T.S.G.?