Unit 4 Government Vocab

Provides for people’s needs, keeps order, protects society from outside threats.

• Rights

• Laws

• Government

• Maintain Order

A set of specific or understood regulations or guidelines governing actions within a certain activity or place.

• Rules

• Laws

• Responsibilities

• Government

Rules of action or conduct made by governments.

• Rights

• Laws

• Rules

• Maintain Order

Freedoms or protections guaranteed by the U. S. government for all citizens.

• Responsibilities

• Maintain Order

• Government

• Rights

Things that citizens should or must do to support the government or a governing body.

• Rights

• Responsibilities

• Laws

• Rules

Providing organization and safety for citizens.

• Laws

• Rights

• Government

• Maintain Order

The benefit or interests of all people.

• Civil Liberties

• Political Rights

• Common Good

• Majority Rule

Freedoms or natural rights held by people that are guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. These also can be restraints on how the government treats its citizens.

• Political Rights

• Rule of Law

• Common Good

• Civil Liberties

The citizens individual ability to participate in the civil and political life of society without fear of discrimination and repression.

• Political Rights

• Rule of Law

• Common Good

• Civil Liberties

The principle under which all people, institutions, and entities are accountable to the laws of the USA.

• Majority Rule

• Common Good

• Rule of Law

• Political Rights